Classification Improvement with Integration of Radial Basis Function and Multilayer Perceptron Network Architectures
The radial basis function architecture and the multilayer perceptron architecture are very different approaches to neural networks in theory and practice. Considering their classification efficiency, both have different strengths; thus, the integration of these tools is an interesting but understudi...
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| description | The radial basis function architecture and the multilayer perceptron architecture are very different approaches to neural networks in theory and practice. Considering their classification efficiency, both have different strengths; thus, the integration of these tools is an interesting but understudied problem domain. This paper presents a novel initialization method based on a distance-weighted homogeneity measure to construct a radial basis function network with fast convergence. The proposed radial basis function network is utilized in the development of an integrated RBF-MLP architecture. The proposed neural network model was tested in various classification tasks and the test results show superiority of the proposed architecture. The RBF-MLP model achieved nearly 40 percent better accuracy in the tests than the baseline MLP or RBF neural network architectures. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a77e6ac66af044d7a8b3e27f783fce4d2025-08-20T03:49:22ZengMDPI AGMathematics2227-73902025-04-01139147110.3390/math13091471Classification Improvement with Integration of Radial Basis Function and Multilayer Perceptron Network ArchitecturesLászló Kovács0Institute of Informatics, University of Miskolc, H-3515 Miskolc, HungaryThe radial basis function architecture and the multilayer perceptron architecture are very different approaches to neural networks in theory and practice. Considering their classification efficiency, both have different strengths; thus, the integration of these tools is an interesting but understudied problem domain. This paper presents a novel initialization method based on a distance-weighted homogeneity measure to construct a radial basis function network with fast convergence. The proposed radial basis function network is utilized in the development of an integrated RBF-MLP architecture. The proposed neural network model was tested in various classification tasks and the test results show superiority of the proposed architecture. The RBF-MLP model achieved nearly 40 percent better accuracy in the tests than the baseline MLP or RBF neural network architectures.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/13/9/1471redial basis functionneural networksparameter initializationdensity-based entropy |
| spellingShingle | László Kovács Classification Improvement with Integration of Radial Basis Function and Multilayer Perceptron Network Architectures Mathematics redial basis function neural networks parameter initialization density-based entropy |
| title | Classification Improvement with Integration of Radial Basis Function and Multilayer Perceptron Network Architectures |
| title_full | Classification Improvement with Integration of Radial Basis Function and Multilayer Perceptron Network Architectures |
| title_fullStr | Classification Improvement with Integration of Radial Basis Function and Multilayer Perceptron Network Architectures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Classification Improvement with Integration of Radial Basis Function and Multilayer Perceptron Network Architectures |
| title_short | Classification Improvement with Integration of Radial Basis Function and Multilayer Perceptron Network Architectures |
| title_sort | classification improvement with integration of radial basis function and multilayer perceptron network architectures |
| topic | redial basis function neural networks parameter initialization density-based entropy |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/13/9/1471 |
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