15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
LEARNING OF FIR AND ARX NEURAL NETWORKS WITH EMPIRICAL RISK MINIMIZATION ALGORITHM
Kayvan Najarian
Computer Science Department
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223, U.S.A.
E-mail: knajaria@uncc.edu

The probably approximately correct (PAC) learning theory was originally introduced to address static models where the input data were assumed to be i.i.d. In many real applications; however, datasets and systems to be modeled are often dynamic. This encourages the efforts to extend the conventional PAC learning theory to address typical dynamic models such as finite impulse response (FIR) and auto regressive exogenous (ARX) models. This paper presents such an extension for the PAC learning theory and uses the resulting theory to evaluate the learning properties of some families of FIR and ARX neural networks. In the case of ARX models, besides the learning properties of the neural models, stochastic stability of the models are also assessed.
Keywords: PAC Learning, Nonlinear FIR Models, Nonlinear ARX Models, Neural Networks, Stochastic Stability
Session slot T-Mo-A02: A learning approach to identification and control/Area code 3a : Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing