Isolation-based hyperbox granular classification computing

Bottom-up and top-down are two main computing models in granular computing by which the granule set including granules with different granularities. The top-down hyperbox granular computing classification algorithm based on isolation, or IHBGrC for short, is proposed in the framework of top-down computing model. Algorithm IHBGrC defines a novel function to measure the distance between two hyperbox hgranules, which is used to judge the inclusion relation between two hyperbox granules, the meet operation is used to isolate the ith class data from the other class data, and the hyperbox granule is partitioned into some hyperbox granules which include the ith class data. We compare the performance of IHBGrC with support vector machines and HBGrC, for a number of two-class problems and multiclass problems. Our computational experiments showed that IHBGrC can both speed up training and achieve comparable generalization performance. © The Author(s) 2016.