Ensemble of online sequential extreme learning machine

Liang et al. [A fast and accurate online sequential learning algorithm for feedforward networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 17 (6) (2006), 1411-1423] has proposed an online sequential learning algorithm called online sequential extreme learning machine (OS-ELM), which can learn the data one-by-one or chunk-by-chunk with fixed or varying chunk size. It has been shown [Liang et al., A fast and accurate online sequential learning algorithm for feedforward networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 17 (6) (2006) 1411-1423] that OS-ELM runs much faster and provides better generalization performance than other popular sequential learning algorithms. However, we find that the stability of OS-ELM can be further improved. In this paper, we propose an ensemble of online sequential extreme learning machine (EOS-ELM) based on OS-ELM. The results show that EOS-ELM is more stable and accurate than the original OS-ELM. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.