IPSO: An immune based PSO supervised learning system for incremental learning

Abstract

PSO has been proved as an effective supervised learning system in recent years, but it's not an effective method for incremental learning problems. Aiming at the incremental learning target for classification, a hybrid algorithm of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Artificial Immune System (AIS) called Immune based PSO (IPSO) is presented in this paper. IPSO inherits the incremental learning ability of AIS. In IPSO, training data is presented to the algorithm one by one, and the training proceed is a one-shot incremental algorithm. Besides, the swarm does not converge to a single solution; instead, each particle is a part of the classifier, and the whole memory population is taken as the integral classifier to the problem. Compared the results of standard PSO and IPSO in several benchmark problems from the UCI data sets, we found that IPSO achieved a better classification accuracy than standard PSO in most cases. It is also competitive with some of the algorithms most commonly used for classification.