Title : 
New Training Methods for RBF Neural Networks
         
        
            Author : 
Fatemi, Mehdi ; Roopaei, Mehdi ; Shabaninia, Faridoon
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Shiraz Univ.
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Radial basis function neural networks have been proposed as powerful tools in many applications. Existing training algorithms suffer from some restrictions such as slow convergence and/or encountering to bias in parameter convergence. This paper is an attempt to improve the above problems by proposing new parameter initializing, pre-training and post-training methods to reach better capabilities in learning time and desired precision compared to previous RBF networks
         
        
            Keywords : 
convergence; learning (artificial intelligence); radial basis function networks; RBF neural networks; parameter convergence; radial basis function neural networks; training methods; Convergence; Electronic mail; Function approximation; Interpolation; Modeling; Neural networks; Pattern recognition; Proposals; Radial basis function networks; State estimation;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Neural Networks and Brain, 2005. ICNN&B '05. International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Beijing
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-9422-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICNNB.2005.1614876