Extreme learning machine(ELM) has attracted much attention in recent years due to its fast convergence and good performance.Merging both ELM and support vector machine is an important trend,thus yielding an ELM kernel.ELM kernel based methods are able to solve the nonlinear problems by inducing an explicit mapping compared with the commonly-used kernels such as Gaussian kernel.In this paper,the ELM kernel is extended to the least squares support vector regression(LSSVR),so ELM-LSSVR was proposed.ELM-LSSVR can be used to reduce the training and test time simultaneously without extra techniques such as sequential minimal optimization and pruning mechanism.Moreover,the memory space for the training and test was relieved.To confirm the efficacy and feasibility of the proposed ELM-LSSVR,the experiments are reported to demonstrate that ELM-LSSVR takes the advantage of training and test time with comparable accuracy to other algorithms.
