R ecently, mul tiple classifier systems have been used for practical applications to improve classification accuracy. Self-generating neural networks are one of the most suitable base-classifiers for multiple classifier systems because of their simple settings and fast learning ability. However, the computation cost of the multiple classifier system based on self-generating neural networks increases in proportion to the numbers of self-gene rating neural networks. In this paper, w e propose a novel prunin g method for efficient classification and we call this model a self-organizing neural grove. Experiments have been conducted to compare the self-organizing neural grove with bagging and the self-organizing neural grove with boosting, and support vector machine. The results show that the self-organizing neural grove can improve its classification accuracy as well as reducing the computation cost.
SELF-ORGANIZING NEURAL GROVE: EFFICIENT NEURAL NETWORK ENSEMBLES USING PRUNED SELF-GENERATIONG NEURAL TREES
