Data Clustering with a Neuro-immune Network

摘要

This paper proposes a novel constructive learning algorithm for a competitive neural network. The proposed algorithm is developed by taking ideas from the immune system and demonstrates robustness for data clustering in the initial experiments reported here for three benchmark problems. Comparisons with results from the literature are also provided. To automatically segment the resultant neurons at the output, a tool from graph theory was used with promising results. A brief sensitivity analysis of the algorithm was performed in order to investigate the influence of the main user-defined parameters on the learning speed and accuracy of the results presented. General discussions and avenues for future works are also provided.