Though similar in structure, the EBF network differs from the well-known radial basis function (RBF) network by incorporating full covariance matrices and uses the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm to estimate the basis functions.

• 在保留RBF3层网络结构基础上,EBF采用了最大期望算法来估计特征空间的混合密度分布参数,用椭球体集合来分解混合密度分布,从而构造了神经网络的中间层基函数的状态。