Robust and Lightweight Ensemble Extreme Learning Machine Engine Based on Eigenspace Domain for Compressed Learning

Compressive sensing (CS) is applied to electrocardiography (ECG) telemonitoring system to address the energy constraint of signal acquisition in sensors. In addition, on-sensor-analysis transmitting only abnormal data further reduces the energy consumption. To combine both advantages, On-CS-sensor-analysis can be achieved by compressed learning (CL), which analyzes signals directly in compressed domain. Extreme learning machine (ELM) provides an effective solution to achieve the goal of low-complexity CL. However, single ELM model has limited accuracy and is sensitive to the quality of data. Furthermore, hardware non-idealities in CS sensors result in learning performance degradation. In this work, we propose the ensemble of sub-eigenspace-ELM (SE-ELM), including two novel approaches: 1) We develop the eigenspace transformation for compressed noisy data, and further utilize a subspace-based dictionary to remove the interferences, and 2) Hardware-friendly design for ensemble of ELM provides high accuracy while maintaining low complexity. The simulation results on ECG-based atrial fibrillation show the SE-ELM can achieve the highest accuracy with 61.9 savings of the required multiplications compared with conventional methods. Finally, we implement this engine in TSMC 90 nm technology. The postlayout results show the proposed CL engine can provide competitive area- and energy-efficiency compared to existing machine learning engines.