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FAST NON-NEGATIVE LEAST-SQUARES LEARNING IN THE RANDOM NEURAL NETWORK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2016

Stelios Timotheou
Stelios Timotheou*
Affiliation:
KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks, University of Cyprus, Cyprus E-mail: timotheou.stelios@ucy.ac.cy
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The random neural network is a biologically inspired neural model where neurons interact by probabilistically exchanging positive and negative unit-amplitude signals that has superior learning capabilities compared to other artificial neural networks. This paper considers non-negative least squares supervised learning in this context, and develops an approach that achieves fast execution and excellent learning capacity. This speedup is a result of significant enhancements in the solution of the non-negative least-squares problem which regard (a) the development of analytical expressions for the evaluation of the gradient and objective functions and (b) a novel limited-memory quasi-Newton solution algorithm. Simulation results in the context of optimizing the performance of a disaster management problem using supervised learning verify the efficiency of the approach, achieving two orders of magnitude execution speedup and improved solution quality compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 3: Erol Gelenbe's 70th Birthday , July 2016 , pp. 379 - 402
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