Echo State networks and Neural network Ensembles to predict Sunspots activity
Echo state networks (ESN) and ensembles of neural networks are developed for the prediction of the monthly sunspots series. Through numerical evaluation on this benchmark data set it has been shown that the feedback ESN models outperform feedforward MLP. Furthermore, it is shown that median fusion lead to robust predictors, and even can improve the prediction accuracy of the best individual predictors.
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