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Granular-ball computing: an efficient, robust, and interpretable adaptive multi-granularity representation and computation method

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arxiv 2304.11171 v5 pith:2SYIYGSZ submitted 2023-04-21 cs.LG cs.AI

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To overcome the limitations of point-based inputs, overly fine computation and limited adaptability in existing artificial intelligence methods, Guoyin Wang and Shuyin Xia proposed granular-ball computing as a new artificial intelligence learning paradigm. Unlike traditional clustering, which mainly performs macro-level grouping, granular-ball computing uses differently sized hyperspheres, termed granular balls, as mesoscopic representation units; rectangles and ellipsoids can serve as approximate balls in low-dimensional spaces. It adaptively fits arbitrary data distributions, replacing traditional artificial intelligence computation based on fine-grained point inputs or single-granularity modeling and establishing a new theoretical paradigm for artificial intelligence based on granular balls. It aims to build an end-to-end multigranular artificial intelligence framework that improves the efficiency, robustness, and interpretability of existing methods. Recently, this theory has advanced rapidly and yielded representative results, yet it still lacks a unified model for systematic summarization. Accordingly, this article first proposes a general representation model of granular-ball computing within a unified descriptive framework and systematically reviews its fundamental ideas and advances in granular-ball computing across granular-ball supervised learning, granular-ball unsupervised learning, approximate granular-ball representation and computation, granular-ball deep learning based on latent-space granulation, granular-ball graph learning, and granular-ballinterdisciplinary research. Further, it identifies open challenges and outlines future research directions.

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