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◆ Step 1: Rule matched: If C (1) AND f1 ^ x h = - 1 Then

sparse 3VL-MLPs, including the case in which the number
of layers is very large (i.e., a deep-learning model). If we
Add C (7)
(7)
^
h
can obtain a good 3VL-MLP, we can map it directly to an
◆ Step 2: Rule matched: If C AND f4 x = 1 Then
expert system. Through this work, I expect to find a way
Add C (8)
(8)
^
h
for inducing interpretable aware systems directly based
C
◆ Step 3: Rule matched: If
AND f5 x = - 1 Then
on sensory data.
Add C (10)
(10)
C
◆ Step 4: Rule matched: If
Then Output L 5 .
Acknowledgment
Note that since the concept corresponding to the root
I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their
node must be true, we should put C (1) into the working
invaluable comments and suggestions.
memory before starting the reasoning process. Also, for
the expert system mapped from a DT, only one rule is
About the Author
matched in each step, and, therefore, conflict resolution is
Qiangfu Zhao (qf-zhao@u-aizu.ac.jp) earned his Ph.D.
not needed.
degree from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1988. He joined
Now, let us review how to map an MLP to an expert
the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Beijing
system. Suppose that the MLP has K (> 1) layers of
Institute of Technology, China, in
neurons (the input layer is not count-
1988, first as a postdoctoral fellow
ed because the input units are not
and then as an associate professor.
neurons but buffers), and the acti-
He was an associate professor
vation function of each neuron is a
If we can obtain a
beginning in October 1993 in the
bipolar sigmoid function. Each
good 3VL-MLP, we
Department of Electronic Engi-
neuron corresponds to an AM. The
neering at Tohoku University,
aware function of the AM can be
can map it directly to
Japan. He joined the University of
defined as the activation function,
an expert system.
Aizu, Japan, in April 1995 as an
and the alert levels Tl and Tu are
associate professor and became a
proper values taken from [−1, 1]
tenured full professor in 1999. His
(e.g., Tl = - 0.5 and Tu = 0.5 ). For
research interests include image
the ith neuron in the kth ^ k 1 K h
processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, and
layer, denoting its output as y ki (x) and the correspond-
awareness computing.
ing concept as C ki, we can map this neuron to the follow-
ing rule:
References
If y ki ^x h = 1 Then Add C ki
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the output vector of the ^ k - 1 h -th layer for k 2 1. For the
ith neuron in the Kth layer (i.e., the output layer), denot-
ing its output as y Ki (x) and the corresponding class label
as L i, we can map this neuron to the following rule:
If y Ki ^x h = 1 Then Output L i .

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Using the above process, we can easily map an MLP to
an expert system, provided that each neuron is discretized
to a 3VL-AM based on (1). Using the expert system, we can
conduct recursive reasoning for any given input x.

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Conclusion and Remarks
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