2013/2/5 Lars Buitinck <l.j.buiti...@uva.nl>:
> 2013/2/5 Olivier Grisel <olivier.gri...@ensta.org>:
>> Am I right to assume that the main reference for ELM is
>> http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/egbhuang/ ?
>
> I've tried ELMs once. Apart from the hyped-up name, they're neural
> nets with random input-to-hidden weights (a very old idea) and
> least-squares fitting of the hidden-to-output weights. I could get
> some interesting results on the digits dataset
> (https://gist.github.com/larsmans/2493300) and they have the benefit
> of having two hyperparameters and very fast training, but in my
> experience the performance is very sensitive to the random seed.

Sounds like a good opportunity for ensembling then :)

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Olivier
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