[Ripley, 1996]. The elmNN package employs the extreme

mechanism, i.e., sparse network learning [Huang, et al., 2012;

t al., 2015]. The brnn package employs the Bayesian learning

[MacKay, 1992].

ow how these three packages work, the seeds data was used again.

en neurons were used in three models. The Jackknife test was

all three models. Table 3.8 shows three confusion matrices of

ee models. Figure 3.26(a) shows the ROC curves for these three

All show a similar performance.

The confusion matrices for three MLP models with ten hidden neurons for the

BRNN

NNET

ELMNN

A

B

%

A

B

%

A

B

%

61

10

85.9

62

9

87.3

61

10

85.9

10

55

84.6

7

58

89.2

4

61

93.8

85.9

84.6

84.2

89.9

86.6

87.1

93.8

85.9

88.5

(a) (b)

(a) The ROC curves of nnet, brnn and elmnn models using ten hidden

the seeds data. The figures are the AUC values, which are 0.88, 0.87 and 0.90

nn model, the nnet model and the elmnn model, respectively. (b) The AUC

hree ANN models using three MLP packages with varying hidden neurons for

ata.

performance shown in Figure 3.26(a) was based on the fixed

of hidden neurons. In fact, different numbers of hidden neurons