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Applications of Complex Fuzzy Sets in Time-Series Prediction
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- Author / Creator
- Yazdanbakhsh Poodeh, Omolbanin
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Complex fuzzy sets are a recent extension of type-1 fuzzy sets, whose membership functions have the unit disc of the complex plane as their co-domain. In the same vein, complex fuzzy logic is a new multi-valued logic whose truth valuation set is the unit disc. Prior research has indicated that machine-learning algorithms built using complex fuzzy logic could be very accurate in time-series forecasting. This Ph.D. dissertation investigates different designs of machine learning algorithms based on complex fuzzy logic to develop reliable and fast algorithms for time-series prediction. The machine learning algorithms designed in this dissertation are inferred from Adaptive Neuro-Complex Fuzzy Inferential System (ANCFIS). ANCFIS was the first neuro-fuzzy system to combine complex fuzzy sets and rule interference for time-series forecasting. ANCFIS uses a hybrid learning rule where consequent parameters are updated on the forward pass, and antecedent parameters on the backward pass. Some recent findings, however, indicate that published results on ANCFIS are sub-optimal. First, we propose to improve the performance of the ANCFIS by changing how we define an input window, or even using sub-sampled windows. We compare the performance of ANCFIS using three different approaches to defining an input window, across six time-series data sets. Then, we evaluate the performance of ANCFIS for univariate time-series prediction using a photovoltaic power data set. We compare the results of ANCFIS against well-known machine learning and statistical learning algorithms. As ANCFIS has not been designed to work with multivariate time-series, we extend the ANCFIS learning architecture to the multivariate case. We investigate single-input-single-output, multiple-input-single-output, and multiple-input-multiple-output variations of the architecture, exploring their performances on four multi-variate time-series. We also explore modifications to the forward- and backward-pass computations in the architecture. We find that our best designs are superior to the published results on these data sets, and at least as accurate as kernel-based prediction algorithms. We also propose and evaluate a randomized-learning approach to training this neuro-fuzzy system. A number of recent results have shown that assigning fixed, random values to a subset of the adaptive parameters in a neural network model is an effective, simpler, and far faster alternative to optimizing those same parameters. We study mechanisms by which randomized learning may be combined with our system, and evaluate the system on both univariate and multivariate time-series. In general, we find that our proposed architecture is far faster than the original system, with no statistically significant difference in accuracy. Finally, we propose a machine learning algorithm, which is designed for fast training of a compact, accurate forecasting model. We use the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm to identify the dominant frequencies in a time-series, and then create complex fuzzy sets to match them as the antecedents of a complex fuzzy rule. Consequent linear functions are then learned via recursive least-squares. We evaluate this algorithm on both univariate and multivariate time-series, finding that this incremental-learning algorithm is as accurate and compact as its slower predecessor, and can be trained much more quickly.
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- Graduation date
- Fall 2017
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.