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Broad learning system with robust adaptive kernel

Signal Processing 2026-05-25 v1

Abstract

For the performance degradation problem of broad learning system (BLS) in non-Gaussian noise environment, the variant of BLS based on M-estimator shows good robust performance. However, in most cases, the determination of the optimal loss function is often very time-consuming due to the lack of prior knowledge of the sample data. Therefore, this paper constructs a variant of BLS based on adaptive robust kernel (AR-BLS) to improve the generalization performance of the model in non-Gaussian noise environment. Adaptive robust kernel function is a general loss function that includes many common M-estimator paradigms. By alternately optimizing model weights and adaptive robust kernel parameters, AR-BLS realizes the adaptive adjustment of model robustness under different outlier noise distributions without human intervention. In addition, the iterative convergence of AR-BLS algorithm is proved based on Zangwill's global convergence theorem. Simulation experiments on multiple public datasets and actual application scenarios verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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@article{arxiv.2605.23495,
  title  = {Broad learning system with robust adaptive kernel},
  author = {Haiquan Zhao and Jinhui Hu and Xin Lua},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.23495},
  year   = {2026}
}