Research Article

A Comparison Study on Rule Extraction from Neural Network Ensembles, Boosted Shallow Trees, and SVMs

Table 5

Average predictive accuracy and standard deviations of the extracted rules for BST-R, DIMLP ensembles, and QSVMs.

Dataset BST-R1 BST-R2 BST-R3 BST-R4 DIMLP-B DIMLP-A QSVM-L QSVM-P3 QSVM-G

Australian Credit Appr. 85.2 0.9 85.0 0.5 84.8 1.0 84.4 0.9 86.5 0.5 84.9 0.7 85.6 0.2 85.7 0.6 85.6 0.3
Breast Cancer 95.8 0.4 96.1 0.4 96.0 0.5 96.5 0.5 96.5 0.3 96.2 0.3 95.1 0.4 92.0 0.5 96.7 0.4
Breast Cancer 2 95.9 0.6 95.7 0.3 95.5 0.5 95.3 0.6 95.6 0.4 95.8 0.4 93.2 0.5 89.0 0.7 94.4 0.4
Breast Canc. (prognostic) 72.9 1.8 73.6 2.2 75.1 2.1 74.3 1.6 79.0 1.9 77.7 2.1 77.9 1.4 78.5 1.8 77.4 2.3
Bupa Liver Disorders 70.0 1.5 66.5 1.3 65.4 0.8 65.7 2.6 70.9 1.7 67.2 1.9 59.6 3.6 61.9 2.5 70.9 1.0
Chess (kr-versus-kp) 96.8 0.1 99.7 0.1 99.7 0.1 99.7 0.1 99.5 0.1 99.7 0.1 90.5 0.0 91.9 0.1 94.9 0.1
Coronary Heart Disease 88.0 0.8 88.8 0.7 88.6 0.8 89.1 0.5 91.6 0.5 92.3 0.6 85.4 0.4 87.0 0.5 86.5 0.5
German Credit 74.2 0.5 73.9 0.7 73.2 1.2 72.6 0.7 73.6 0.6 72.6 1.0 74.8 0.8 75.1 0.9 73.0 1.3
Glass (binary) 82.7 1.7 82.9 2.8 83.2 1.5 84.3 2.3 77.8 1.4 81.1 2.1 66.7 2.9 76.4 3.1 76.7 1.9
Haberman 72.5 1.2 66.7 1.4 65.8 2.0 65.0 1.5 74.3 1.1 73.3 0.6 63.1 3.9 65.7 2.4 70.3 2.1
Heart Disease 79.5 2.2 75.8 2.2 76.8 2.0 75.3 1.7 84.3 1.4 80.5 1.9 82.8 1.5 82.2 1.6 81.8 1.3
ILPD (liver) 69.5 1.3 70.1 1.1 70.1 1.1 70.4 1.2 70.7 0.6 70.8 1.5 65.2 1.8 68.6 1.0 68.4 1.4
Ionosphere 91.3 1.0 91.5 1.2 91.0 1.1 91.7 0.9 92.1 0.6 90.6 1.5 86.3 0.8 88.3 1.0 91.8 0.6
Istanbul Stock Exch. 74.5 1.2 72.3 1.0 72.5 1.0 72.8 1.8 77.2 0.8 75.1 1.9 77.6 1.0 76.8 0.6 77.1 0.6
Labor 83.2 3.8 86.3 2.3 86.4 3.6 89.6 2.7 84.3 5.2 87.4 2.1 88.3 2.3 83.6 3.1 89.1 3.5
Musk1 83.7 1.6 86.9 1.0 86.6 1.3 86.2 1.3 85.8 1.6 86.0 1.1 79.9 0.6 82.4 1.8 83.4 1.9
Pima Indians 75.1 0.9 73.2 1.1 72.0 0.8 72.1 1.1 76.3 0.6 74.2 1.2 75.9 0.8 76.3 0.5 76.2 0.5
Promoters 82.7 4.2 80.7 3.4 80.9 4.3 84.1 2.6 83.0 2.5 81.1 2.9 80.8 3.3 80.4 2.6 80.5 3.5
Saheart 66.9 1.2 64.1 1.3 63.1 1.3 63.5 1.6 71.9 0.8 68.6 1.3 61.6 3.9 70.7 0.9 70.1 1.2
Sonar 80.3 2.3 80.6 2.7 79.2 3.1 78.0 2.0 79.0 1.7 78.4 2.9 77.1 2.3 77.9 1.8 75.4 3.6
Spect Heart 71.4 2.0 65.4 2.6 64.9 2.0 66.8 1.7 72.2 1.5 67.9 2.2 67.6 1.4 68.9 1.6 66.5 2.4
Splice junct. 94.5 0.4 96.7 0.2 96.4 0.3 96.0 0.3 95.1 0.3 95.3 0.4 85.8 0.4 87.4 0.3 93.8 0.3
Svmguide 97.0 0.1 96.9 0.1 96.8 0.1 96.7 0.2 96.8 0.1 96.9 0.1 92.8 0.1 90.3 0.1 93.2 0.1
Tictactoe 98.3 0.1 99.3 0.2 99.9 0.1 100.0 0.0 98.4 0.0 98.7 0.2 98.3 0.0 98.3 0.0 98.9 0.1
Vertebral Column 80.8 1.1 81.3 0.5 81.3 1.4 81.4 0.6 84.0 0.6 82.7 1.1 83.9 0.8 84.0 0.7 83.5 1.2