Towards Incorporating Human Knowledge in Fuzzy Pattern Tree Evolution

Aidan Murphy, Gráinne Murphy, Jorge Amaral, Douglas MotaDias, Enrique Naredo, Conor Ryan

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Abstract

This paper shows empirically that Fuzzy Pattern Trees (FPT) evolved using Grammatical Evolution (GE), a system we call FGE, meet the criteria to be considered a robust Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) system. Experimental results show FGE achieves competitive results against state of the art black box methods on a set of real world benchmark problems. Various selection methods were investigated to see which was best for finding smaller, more interpretable models and a human expert was recruited to test the interpretability of the models found and to give a confidence score for each model. Models which were deemed interpretable but not trustworthy by the expert were seen to be outperformed in classification accuracy by interpretable models which were judge trustworthy, validating that FGE can be a powerful XAI technique.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGenetic Programming - 24th European Conference, EuroGP 2021, Held as Part of EvoStar 2021, Proceedings
EditorsTing Hu, Nuno Lourenço, Eric Medvet
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages66-81
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783030728113
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event24th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 7 Apr 20219 Apr 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12691 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference24th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period7/04/219/04/21

Keywords

  • Explainable AI
  • Fuzzy logic
  • Grammatical Evolution

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