Approximate solutions to several classes of Volterra and Fredholm integral equations using the neural network algorithm based on the sine-cosine basis function and extreme learning machine

Yanfei Lu; Shiqing Zhang; Futian Weng; Hongli Sun

doi:10.3389/fncom.2023.1120516

Approximate solutions to several classes of Volterra and Fredholm integral equations using the neural network algorithm based on the sine-cosine basis function and extreme learning machine

Front Comput Neurosci. 2023 Mar 9:17:1120516. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2023.1120516. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Yanfei Lu¹, Shiqing Zhang¹, Futian Weng², Hongli Sun³

Affiliations

¹ School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Taizhou University, Zhejiang, Taizhou, China.
² Data Mining Research Center, Xiamen University, Fujian, Xiamen, China.
³ School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central South University, Hunan, Changsha, China.

Abstract

In this study, we investigate a new neural network method to solve Volterra and Fredholm integral equations based on the sine-cosine basis function and extreme learning machine (ELM) algorithm. Considering the ELM algorithm, sine-cosine basis functions, and several classes of integral equations, the improved model is designed. The novel neural network model consists of an input layer, a hidden layer, and an output layer, in which the hidden layer is eliminated by utilizing the sine-cosine basis function. Meanwhile, by using the characteristics of the ELM algorithm that the hidden layer biases and the input weights of the input and hidden layers are fully automatically implemented without iterative tuning, we can greatly reduce the model complexity and improve the calculation speed. Furthermore, the problem of finding network parameters is converted into solving a set of linear equations. One advantage of this method is that not only we can obtain good numerical solutions for the first- and second-kind Volterra integral equations but also we can obtain acceptable solutions for the first- and second-kind Fredholm integral equations and Volterra-Fredholm integral equations. Another advantage is that the improved algorithm provides the approximate solution of several kinds of linear integral equations in closed form (i.e., continuous and differentiable). Thus, we can obtain the solution at any point. Several numerical experiments are performed to solve various types of integral equations for illustrating the reliability and efficiency of the proposed method. Experimental results verify that the proposed method can achieve a very high accuracy and strong generalization ability.

Keywords: Volterra-Fredholm integral equations; approximate solutions; extreme learning machine; neural network algorithm; sine-cosine basis function.