Numerical bounds to assure initial local stability of NARX multilayer perceptrons and radial basis functions

  • Authors:
  • Eloy Irigoyen;Miguel Pinzolas

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of System Engineering and Automation, University of the Basque Country, Alda, Urquijo s/n, E-48013 Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain;Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, E-30202 Cartagena, Murcia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this work, local stability on the initialization phase of nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous inputs multilayer perceptrons (NARX MLP) and radial basis functions (NARX RBF) neural networks is studied. It will be shown that the selection of adequate ranges for the initial weights is related with local stability of the network in its initial stage. As a result, quantitative limits for the initial weights are established that guarantee local stability and accelerate the learning process. These theoretical developments have been tested in experiments which corroborate the improvements achieved with the proposed initialization methods.