Estimation of Radial Basis Function Network Centers via Information Forces

The determination of The Radial Basis Function Network centers is an open problem. This work determines the cluster centers by a proposed gradient algorithm, using the information forces acting on each data point. These centers are applied to a Radial Basis Function Network for data classification. A threshold is established based on Information Potential to classify the outliers. The proposed algorithms are analysed based on databases considering the number of clusters, overlap of clusters, noise, and unbalance of cluster sizes. Combined, the threshold, and the centers determined by information forces, show good results in comparison to a similar Network with a k-means clustering algorithm.