“…Here, the hidden layer was divided into sub-hidden layers based on the number of classes of the underlying dataset. Recently, to reduce the required number of hidden neurons of a real-valued RBF neural network, a largest coverage criterion was presented to determine the centers and widths in (Javan, Mashhadi, Toussi & Rouhani, 2012), which was further modified and named as the maximum spread algorithm in (Rouhani & Javan, 2014). It can be seen that the choice of centers and widths only relies on the distances between samples from different classes (Rouhani & Javan, 2014).…”