Semi-Supervised Online Elastic Extreme Learning Machine for Data Classification
Carlos A. S. da Silva, Renato Antonio Krohling · 2018
The Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) is a fast and efficient learning algorithm for single-hidden layer feedforward neural networks (SLFN). Recently,with the increase in data volume in real-world applications, and the need to process data from streaming, two problems have become recurrent in data classification: it is not possible to gather all the necessary data before training the algorithms, and it is difficult to manually label the data for the classification tasks. To address these problems, many variations of ELM have been proposed to allow semi-supervised learning, online sequential learning, or both. In this paper, we propose a variation of ELM called Semi-Supervised Online Elastic Extreme Learning Machine (SSOE-ELM), an algorithm that uses both labeled and unlabeled data to learn in an online sequential way (chunk-by-chunk). We compare our approach to the SOS-ELM in several benchmarks. Our experimental results show that SSOE-ELM outperforms SOS-ELM in accuracy, generalization ability and in training speed.