Comparative Evaluation of Training Schemes for the Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Network

In the present study we evaluate the performance of various training schemes for the locally recurrent probabilistic neural network and seek for advantageous tradeoffs between required training time and classification accuracy. Specifically, we consider training schemes which make use of a simple incremental procedure for adjusting sigma, as well as methods based on particle swarm optimization or differential evolution in different configurations. The experimental evaluation was carried out in common experimental protocol based on the Parkinson speech dataset. The experimental results show that with a proper training configuration a high accuracy can be achieved even with limited training data.