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Co‐evolution of non‐linear PLS model components
Author(s) -
Searson Dominic,
Willis Mark,
Montague Gary
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of chemometrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.47
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1099-128X
pISSN - 0886-9383
DOI - 10.1002/cem.1084
Subject(s) - overfitting , projection (relational algebra) , component (thermodynamics) , partial least squares regression , computer science , principal component analysis , linearity , set (abstract data type) , linear model , evolutionary algorithm , modular design , linear regression , binary number , artificial neural network , algorithm , artificial intelligence , mathematics , machine learning , engineering , physics , arithmetic , thermodynamics , programming language , operating system , electrical engineering
Abstract The issue of outer model weight updating is important in extending partial least squares (PLS) regression to modelling data that shows significant non‐linearity. This paper presents a novel co‐evolutionary component approach to the weight updating problem. Specification of the non‐linear PLS model is achieved using an evolutionary computational (EC) method that can co‐evolve all non‐linear inner models and all input projection weights simultaneously. In this method, modular symbolic non‐linear equations are used to represent the inner models and binary sequences are used to represent the projection weights. The approach is flexible, and other representations could be employed within the same co‐evolutionary framework. The potential of these methods is illustrated using a simulated pH neutralisation process data set exhibiting significant non‐linearity. It is demonstrated that the co‐evolutionary component architecture can produce results which are competitive with non‐linear neural network‐based PLS algorithms that use iterative projection weight updating. In addition, a data sampling method for mitigating overfitting to the training data is described. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.