Title
Financial credit analysis via a clustering weightless neural classifier.
Abstract
Credit analysis is a real-world classification problem where it is quite common to find datasets with a large amount of noisy data. State-of-the-art classifiers that employ error minimisation techniques, on the other hand, require a long time to converge, in order to achieve robustness. This paper explores ClusWiSARD, a clustering customisation of the WiSARD weightless neural network model, applied to two different credit analysis real-world problems. Experimental evidence shows that ClusWiSARD is very competitive with Support Vector Machine (SVM) w.r.t. accuracy, with the advantage of being capable of online learning. ClusWiSARD outperforms SVM in training time, by two orders of magnitude, and is slightly faster in test time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.neucom.2015.06.105
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bleaching,ClusWiSARD,Clustering,Concept drifting,Credit assignment,Online learning
Pattern recognition,Computer science,Support vector machine,Robustness (computer science),Minimisation (psychology),Weightless,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Classifier (linguistics),Artificial neural network,Credit analysis,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
183
C
0925-2312
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.42
20
Authors
8