A neural feedforward network with a polynomial nonlinearity

A novel neural network based on the Wiener model is proposed. The network is composed of a hidden layer of preprocessing neurons followed by a polynomial nonlinearity and a linear output neuron. The author tries to solve the problem of finding an appropriate preprocessing method by using a modified backpropagation algorithm. It is shown by the use of calculation trees that the proposed approach is simple to implement, and that the computational complexity is not much larger than for the alternative method of using PCA to determine the weights in the preprocessing network. A simulation is given which indicates superior performance of the proposed network compared to the PCA network