Hybrid Contractive Auto-encoder with Restricted Boltzmann Machine For Multiclass Classification

Contractive auto-encoder (CAE) is a type of auto-encoders and a deep learning algorithm that is based on multilayer training approach. It is considered as one of the most powerful, efficient and robust classification techniques, more specifically feature reduction. The problem independence, easy implementation and intelligence of solving sophisticated problems make it distinct from other deep learning approaches. However, CAE fails in data dimensionality reduction that cause difficulty to capture the useful information within the features space. In order to resolve the issues of CAE, restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) layers have been integrated with CAE to enhance the dimensionality reduction and a randomized factor for hidden layer parameters. The proposed model has been evaluated on four benchmark variant datasets of MNIST. The results have been compared with four well-known multiclass class classification approaches including standard CAE, RBM, AlexNet and artificial neural network. A considerable amount of improvement has been observed in the performance of proposed model as compared to other classification techniques. The proposed CAE–RBM showed an improvement of 2–4% on MNIST(basic), 9–12% for MNIST(rot), 7–12% for MNIST(bg-rand) and 7–10% for MNIST(bg-img) dataset in term of final accuracy.