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A Self-Organizing Ensemble of Deep Neural Networks for the Classification of Data from Complex Processes

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We present a new self-organizing algorithm for classification of a data that combines and extends the strengths of several common machine learning algorithms, such as algorithms in self-organizing neural networks, ensemble methods and deep neural networks. The increased expression power is combined with the explanation power of self-organizing networks. Our algorithm outperforms both deep neural networks and ensembles of deep neural networks. For our evaluation case, we use production monitoring data from a complex steel manufacturing process, where data is both high-dimensional and has many nonlinear interdependencies. In addition to the improved prediction score, the algorithm offers a new deep-learning based approach for how computational resources can be focused in data exploration, since the algorithm points out areas of the input space that are more challenging to learn.

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    This work was supported by Vinnova and Jernkontoret under the project Dataflow. We would like to thank Andreas Persson at Outokumpu AB for the valuable collaboration.

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Ståhl, N., Falkman, G., Mathiason, G., Karlsson, A. (2018). A Self-Organizing Ensemble of Deep Neural Networks for the Classification of Data from Complex Processes. In: Medina, J., Ojeda-Aciego, M., Verdegay, J., Perfilieva, I., Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R. (eds) Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. Applications. IPMU 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 855. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91479-4_21

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