Clustering-based algorithms for single-hidden-layer sigmoid perceptron

Gradient-descent type supervised learning is the most commonly used algorithm for design of standard sigmoid perception (SP). However, it is cornputationally expensive (slow) and has local-minimal problem. Moody and Darken proposed an input-clustering based hierarchical algorithm for fast learning in networks of locally tuned neurons in the context of radial basis function networks. In this paper, we propose and analyze input clustering (IC) and input-output clustering (IOC)-based algorithms for fast learning in networks of globally tuned, neurons in. the context of the SP. It is shown that "localizing" the input layer Weights of the SP by the IC and the IOC minimizes an upper bound to the SP output error. The proposed algorithms could possibly be used also to initialize the SP weights for the conventional I gradient-descent learning. Simulation results offer that the SPs designed by the IC And the IOC yield comparable performance in comparison with its radial basis. function network counterparts.