Initial Work on the Development of a Hardware-Based Gradient Descent Trained Expert System

Abstract

Prior work has introduced a form of explainable artificial intelligence that is able to precisely explain, in a human-understandable form, why it makes decisions. It is also able to learn to make better decisions without potentially learning illegal or invalid considerations. This defensible system is based on fractional value rule-fact expert systems and the use of gradient descent training to optimize rule weightings. This software system has demonstrated efficacy for many applications; however, it utilizes iterative processing and thus does not have a deterministic completion time. It also requires comparatively expensive general-purpose computing hardware to run on. This paper builds on prior work in the development of hardware-based expert systems and presents and assesses the efficacy of a hardware implementation of this system. It characterizes its performance and discusses its utility and trade-offs for several application domains.