An Improved Brain-Inspired Emotional Learning Algorithm for Fast Classification
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School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde 415000, China
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School of Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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Academic Editor: Stefano Cagnoni
Algorithms 2017, 10(2), 70; https://doi.org/10.3390/a10020070
Received: 14 March 2017
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Revised: 5 June 2017
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Accepted: 9 June 2017
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Published: 14 June 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence and Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Real-World Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition)
Classification is an important task of machine intelligence in the field of information. The artificial neural network (ANN) is widely used for classification. However, the traditional ANN shows slow training speed, and it is hard to meet the real-time requirement for large-scale applications. In this paper, an improved brain-inspired emotional learning (BEL) algorithm is proposed for fast classification. The BEL algorithm was put forward to mimic the high speed of the emotional learning mechanism in mammalian brain, which has the superior features of fast learning and low computational complexity. To improve the accuracy of BEL in classification, the genetic algorithm (GA) is adopted for optimally tuning the weights and biases of amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex in the BEL neural network. The combinational algorithm named as GA-BEL has been tested on eight University of California at Irvine (UCI) datasets and two well-known databases (Japanese Female Facial Expression, Cohn–Kanade). The comparisons of experiments indicate that the proposed GA-BEL is more accurate than the original BEL algorithm, and it is much faster than the traditional algorithm.
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Keywords:
classification; brain emotional learning; reward; genetic algorithm; fitness
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Mei, Y.; Tan, G.; Liu, Z. An Improved Brain-Inspired Emotional Learning Algorithm for Fast Classification. Algorithms 2017, 10, 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/a10020070
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Mei Y, Tan G, Liu Z. An Improved Brain-Inspired Emotional Learning Algorithm for Fast Classification. Algorithms. 2017; 10(2):70. https://doi.org/10.3390/a10020070
Chicago/Turabian StyleMei, Ying, Guanzheng Tan, and Zhentao Liu. 2017. "An Improved Brain-Inspired Emotional Learning Algorithm for Fast Classification" Algorithms 10, no. 2: 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/a10020070
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