Extending the weightless WiSARD classifier for regression

摘要

This paper explores two new weightless neural network models, Regression WiSARD and ClusRegression WiSARD, in the challenging task of predicting the total palm oil production of a set of 28 (twenty eight) differently located sites under different climate and soil profiles. Both models were derived from Kolcz and Allinson's n-Tuple Regression weightless neural model and obtained mean absolute error (MAE) rates of 0.09097 and 0.09173, respectively. Such results are very competitive with the state-of-the-art (0.07983), whilst being four orders of magnitude faster during the training phase. Additionally the models have been tested on three classic regression datasets, also presenting competitive performance with respect to other models often used in this type of task. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.