The present invention belongs to the field of intelligent computing, and particularly relates to an incomplete multi-view fuzzy system modeling method based on visible and hidden view collaborative learning.
In the real world, data often has multiple representations or comes from multiple sources, which is called multi-view or multi-modal data. For example, in a content-based web image search, objects can be represented by the visual features of an image and textual features of the image description.
In order to efficiently mine and utilize multi-view data, a multi-view learning method has been greatly developed in recent years. However, the current multi-view algorithm has two problems. First, both have a common assumption, that is, all views are complete. However, in a real scene, most of the multi-view data is missing. For example, in document clustering, different languages can be considered as different views. But, due to human error, some documents are not fully translated. Another example is in web image retrieval, where text descriptions are not always associated with web images, and some web images may not have associated text. In these scenes, the complementary information among the multi-view becomes very limited, which leads to the traditional multi-view methods being unreliable or unavailable. Second, with the widespread application of machine learning in recent years, an interpretability problem about machine learning has received increasing attention. However, these algorithms focus too much on the performance of the algorithms while neglecting the interpretability of a model.
Several explorations have been made to meet the challenges brought by incomplete multi-view data, and these explorations can be divided into four categories. 1. Discarding all data with missing views, which results in the loss of a large amount of available information. 2. The missing views are imputed by using the existing imputation technology, which can reduce the negative impact of missing views to a certain extent. However, the existing imputation technology can only complete one view at a time, and cannot use the complementary information among the views. In addition, an estimation method may introduce additional estimation errors, thus reducing the data quality. 3. Using subspace learning technology to learn a common view for all views cannot guarantee that the learned common hidden view still has high discrimination under the condition of many missing views. Meanwhile, discarding the original multi-view data and using only the common hidden view modeling will easily result in poor generalization ability of the model. 4.
The incomplete multi-view problem is transformed into a multi-task learning problem by using view alignment and grouping strategy, which can guarantee data utilization better, but can ignore the complementary information among the views. Therefore, incomplete multi-view learning still faces major challenges.
In order to address the problem of model interpretability, two mainstream strategies are proposed. The first uses relatively simple, essentially interpretable models to deal with problems, such as linear models, tree-based models, and rule-based models. The second uses a post-hoc interpretable method, using such methods as visualization and example interpretation to interpret a decision-making process of the model while ensuring the performance of the model. Because a TSK fuzzy system is a rule-based interpretability model and at the same time has a strong data-driven learning ability, it has been widely concerned. In recent years, it has also made great progress in the field of multi-view. However, the current multi-view model based on the TSK is still unable to deal with the incomplete multi-view problem, therefore, how to build an efficient and more transparent model to solve the incomplete multi-view problem is still a challenging task.
According to the defects in the prior art, the present invention provides an incomplete multi-view fuzzy system modeling method (IMV_TSK) based on visible and hidden view collaborative learning. The present invention firstly designs a new hidden view extraction method, and adaptively integrates the missing view imputation into the process. Then, the present invention designs a new incomplete multi-view fuzzy system modeling method by combining visible and hidden views.
The present invention has the following technical solution:
where Lν=Dν−Sν is a Laplacian matrix, Dν is a diagonal matrix, and the ith diagonal element diν thereof is equal to Σj=1Nsi,jν. The first two items of the formula (3) are used for solving the common hidden view and completing the missing views. The second item
is used for enabling the reconstructed error matrix to be closer to the real value;
2.3 solving H, Bν and Uν in the formula (3) by using an iterative solution method, wherein the update formula is as follows:
where Xgν∈RN×d
Further details of a learning criterion for (9) are explained below:
are empirical error terms, which are used for training a fuzzy system under each view.
are collaborative terms among the views, which are used for ensuring that the outputs of the multi-view are consistent, and for mining mutual information among the views, thereby improving the generalization ability of a training model. Here is
(for writing convenience, here is Hg=Xgν+1)
lnα
4.4 Formula (9) is a non-convex problem, so the present invention expresses it as a Lagrange function, and then solves it by means of iterative optimization. An updated formula of Pgν and αν is given as follows, for writing convenience, setting {tilde over (W)}ν(Wν)TWν:
the value can be converted to the local minimum through iterative optimizations (10) and (11), thereby obtaining the locally optimal solution.
Step five: according to the following objective function, the final output of the incomplete multi-view fuzzy system can be obtained:
the present invention comprises the following advantages:
1) different from the existing method for simply imputing the missing views or finding the common hidden view for all views, the present invention combines two methods together and completes the data while learning the hidden views. The learned hidden views can promote data imputation, and the imputed multi-view data also can improve the discrimination of the hidden views.
2) The present invention adopts a TSK fuzzy system as a basic model to construct a multi-view classification model with strong interpretability. Finally, all views comprising hidden views are connected together by using collaborative learning. Certain differences and complementary information exist among different views and collaborative learning can mine complementary information among views, reduce differences among views, and finally greatly promote the robustness of the model.
3) The validity of the method herein is verified on multiple real multi-view datasets.
The present invention will be described in detail below in combination with the drawings and the embodiments.
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1. an incomplete multi-view fuzzy system modeling method based on visible and hidden collaborative learning, comprising the following steps:
In embodiment 1, the present invention uses seven public multi-view data for model construction and evaluation, and the specific data set information is shown in Table 1.
Table 2 to Table 8 summarizes the classification accuracy of the present invention and thirteen advanced incomplete multi-view classification algorithms in seven datasets. By observing Table 2 to Table 8, it can be concluded that: (1) the effect of only replacing the missing views with a value of 0 is worse in most cases compared to other imputing methods. (2) In the case of fewer missing views, the imputation strategy will play a certain role, while when the proportion of missing is large, the effectiveness of the imputation strategy is greatly reduced. For example, in a Dermatology data set, AMVMED (SVT) and other methods are more effective when the proportion of missing views is 10% and 30%. When the proportion of the missing views is 90%, the performance of this algorithm is different from that of IMV_TSK. (3) Similarly, because an IMSF algorithm adopts a grouping strategy, when the proportion of missing is less, the model can utilize information on the multi-view; while when the proportion of the missing is larger, the model can utilize less information on the multi-view, resulting in poor performance. At the same time, raw data is divided into several groups, therefore, the training data for each group is less in the case of a large number of categories, resulting in poor performance of IMSF. For example, IMSF performs better on binary classification data sets such as Epileptic EEG and Ionosphere, while the effect on multi-classification data sets such as Image Segmentation and Forest Type is poor. (4) In most cases, the performance of IMG, IMC_GRMF, DAIMC, and other algorithms is not excellent, which proves that simply using the common hidden view of mining for classification modeling will lead to poor model performance. (5) It can be seen that the IMV_TSK uses complementary information among views to complete the data, therefore, IMV_TSK performs better than other algorithms in most cases. In addition, because the IMV_TSK uses the common hidden view, the maximization for data utilization is realized. Therefore, the performance of the IM_TSK is still better even in the case of a larger missing rate.
The present invention continues to analyze the effectiveness of the imputation of the hidden views and missing views when the proportion of missing views is 30%. Denoting IMV_TSK without hidden view as IMV_TSK1, and denoting IMV_TSK without using the imputation approach of the proposed method but mean imputation to fill the missing views as IMV_TSK2. Table 9 gives the classification accuracy of IMV_TSK1, IMV_TSK2, and IMV_TSK.
It can be clearly seen that IMV_TSK is superior to IMV_TSK1 and IMV_TSK2 on most datasets, especially on an Image Segmentation data set and a Forest Type data set, which illustrates the effectiveness of the hidden view and the missing view imputation approach in IMV_TSK. By comparing IMV_TSK with IMV_TSK1, the results show that hidden view information is very useful to improve the classification performance of multi-view data. In addition, by comparing IMV_TSK with IMV_TSK2, the corresponding results show that the hidden view assisted missing view imputation technology has advantages over traditional imputation technology.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 202310071513.0 | Feb 2023 | CN | national |