FAST NON-NEGATIVE LEAST-SQUARES LEARNING IN THE RANDOM NEURAL NETWORK

The random neural network is a biologically inspired neural model where neurons interact by probabilistically exchanging positive and negative unit-amplitude signals that has superior learning capabilities compared to other artificial neural networks. This paper considers non-negative least squares supervised learning in this context, and develops an approach that achieves fast execution and excellent learning capacity. This speedup is a result of significant enhancements in the solution of the non-negative least-squares problem which regard (a) the development of analytical expressions for the evaluation of the gradient and objective functions and (b) a novel limited-memory quasi-Newton solution algorithm. Simulation results in the context of optimizing the performance of a disaster management problem using supervised learning verify the efficiency of the approach, achieving two orders of magnitude execution speedup and improved solution quality compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.