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Extreme learning machine (ELM) as an emerging branch of shallow networks has shown its excellent generalization and fast learning speed. However, for blended data, the robustness of ELM is weak because its weights and biases of hidden nodes…

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Finite mixtures of matrix normal distributions are a powerful tool for classifying three-way data in unsupervised problems. The distribution of each component is assumed to be a matrix variate normal density. The mixture model can be…

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We present a rigorous theoretical analysis of the convergence rate of the deep mixed residual method (MIM) when applied to a linear elliptic equation with various types of boundary conditions. The MIM method has been proposed as a more…

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