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Learning classifier systems (LCSs) have been successfully adapted to real-world domains with the claim of human-readable rule populations. However, due to the inherent rich characteristic of the employed representation, it is possible to represent the underlying patterns in multiple (polymorphic) ways, which obscures the most informative patterns. A novel rule reduction algorithm is proposed based on ensembles of multiple trained LCSs populations in a hierarchical learning architecture to reduce the local diversity and global polymorphism. The primary aim of this project is to interrogate the hidden patterns in LCSs’ trained population rather than improve the predictive power on test sets. This enables successful visualization of the importance of features in data groups (niches) that can contain heterogeneous patterns, i.e. even if different patterns result in the same class the importance of features can be found.
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Liu, Y., Browne, W.N., Xue, B. (2018). Hierarchical Learning Classifier Systems for Polymorphism in Heterogeneous Niches. In: Mitrovic, T., Xue, B., Li, X. (eds) AI 2018: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11320. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03991-2_37
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