Selection of weight quantisation accuracy for radial basis function neural network using stochastic sensitivity measure

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Minimising the number of bits per connection weight in hardware realisation of a radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) will result in high-speed and low-cost implementation, with possible increase in output error. A weight quantisation accuracy selection method is proposed, to find an appropriate number of bits for a given stochastic sensitivity measure, which quantifies the relationship between the variance of the output error and first- and second-order statistics of input, weight and their perturbations.