A hybrid intelligent algorithm of neural network regression and unsupervised fuzzy clustering is proposed for clustering datasets of nonparametric regression models. In the new formulation, (i) the performance function of the neural network regression models is modified such that the fuzzy clustering weightings can be introduced in these network models; (ii) the errors of these network models are feed-backed into the fuzzy clustering process. This hybrid intelligent approach leads to an iterative procedure to formulate neural network regression models with optimal fuzzy membership values for each object such that the overall error of the neural network regression models can be minimized. Our testing results show that this hybrid algorithm NN-FC can handle cases that the K-means and Fuzzy C-means perform poorly. The overall training errors drop down rapidly and converge with only a few iterations. The clustering accuracy in testing period is consistent with these drops of errors and can reach up to about 100% for some problems that the other classical fuzzy clustering algorithms perform poorly with about 60% accuracy only. Our algorithm can also build regression models, which has the advantage of the NN component, being non-parametric and thus more flexible than the fuzzy c-regression.
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Ao, SI. (2009). Hybrid Intelligent Regressions with Neural Network and Fuzzy Clustering. In: Ao, SI., Rieger, B., Chen, SS. (eds) Advances in Computational Algorithms and Data Analysis. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8919-0_5
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