A Hierarchical Model with Pseudoinverse Learning Algorithm Optimazation for Pulsar Candidate Selection

Abstract

Pulsars search has always been one of the most concerned problem in the field of astronomy. Nowadays, with the development of astronomical instruments and observation technology, the amount of data is getting bigger and bigger. Radio pulsar surveys have generated and will generate vast amounts of data. To handle big data, developing new technologies and frameworks to efficiently and accurately analyze these data become increasing urgent. The number of positive and negative samples in pulsar candidate data set is very unbalanced, if we only use these a few positive samples to train a deep neural network (DNN), the trained DNN is prone because of the problem of overfitting and will affect the generalization ability. Motivated by the mixtures of experts network architecture, we proposed a hierarchical model for pulsar candidate selection which assembles a set of trained base classifiers. Moreover, training a neural network always takes a lot of time because of using gradient descent (GD) based algorithm. In this work, we utilize the pseudoinverse learning algorithm instead of GD based algorithm to train proposed model. With the designed network architecture and adopted training algorithm, our model has the advantages not only with high steady-state precision but also good generalization performance.