Explainable Neural Networks Based on Fuzzy Logic and Multi-criteria Decision Tools

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Springer Nature, Apr 28, 2021 - Technology & Engineering - 173 pages

The research presented in this book shows how combining deep neural networks with a special class of fuzzy logical rules and multi-criteria decision tools can make deep neural networks more interpretable – and even, in many cases, more efficient.

Fuzzy logic together with multi-criteria decision-making tools provides very powerful tools for modeling human thinking. Based on their common theoretical basis, we propose a consistent framework for modeling human thinking by using the tools of all three fields: fuzzy logic, multi-criteria decision-making, and deep learning to help reduce the black-box nature of neural models; a challenge that is of vital importance to the whole research community.


 

Contents

List of Tables
1
Elements of Nilpotent Fuzzy Logic
2
Conjunctions Disjunctions and Negations
3
2 Implications
29
3 Equivalences
43
4 Modifiers and Membership Functions in Fuzzy Sets
63
Decision Operators
82
5 Aggregative Operators
85
6 Preference Operators
101
Learning and Neural Networks
119
7 Squashing Functions
120
8 Learning Rules
135
9 Interpretable Neural Networks Based on ContinuousValued Logic and Multicriteria Decision Operators
147
10 Conclusions
170
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