Lithofacies Recognition Based on Extreme Learning Machine
To overcome the problem of lower training speed and difficulty parameter selection in traditional support vector machine (SVM), a method based on extreme learning machine (ELM) for lithofacies recognition is presented in this paper. ELM is a new learning algorithm with single-hidden layer feedforward neural networks (SLFNN). Not only it can simplify the parameter selection process, but also improve the training speed of the network learning. By determining the optimal parameters, the lithofacies classification model is established, and the classification result of ELM is also compared to traditional SVM. The experimental results show that, ELM with less number of neurons has similar classification accuracy compared to SVM, and it is easier to select the parameters which significantly reduce the training speed. The feasibility of ELM for lithofacies recognition and the availability of the algorithm are verified and validated