Exploratory data analysis with artificial immune systems

We use a modified version of the CLONALG algorithm to perform exploratory data analysis. Since we wish to compare results from a number of methods, we only report on linear projections which have unique solutions. We incorporate a type of Gram Schmidt orthogonalisation [15] into the affinity maturation process to capture multiple components. We combine the new algorithm with reinforcement learning [17, 20] and with cross entropy maximization [13, 19]. Finally we combine several different non-standard adaptation methods using bagging and show that we get reliable convergence to accurate filters.