Multilabel Takagi-Sugeno-Kang Fuzzy System

Multilabel (ML) classification can effectively identify the relevant labels of an instance from a given set of labels. However, the modeling of the relationship between the features and the labels is critical to classification performance. To this end, in this article, we propose a new ML classification method, called ML Takagi-Sugeno-Kang fuzzy system (ML-TSK FS), to improve the classification performance. The structure of ML-TSK FS is designed using fuzzy rules to model the relationship between features and labels. The FS is trained by integrating fuzzy inference-based ML correlation learning with ML regression loss. The proposed ML-TSK FS is evaluated experimentally on 12 benchmark ML datasets. The results show that the performance of ML-TSK FS is competitive with existing methods in terms of various evaluation metrics, indicating that it is able to model the feature-label relationship effectively using fuzzy inference rules and enhances the classification performance.