“…Due to the random selection of input weights and hidden biases, the output weight matrix of ELM may not show full column rank leading to ill‐conditioning [17] of the system which produces non‐optimal solutions. Therefore, to enhance the conditioning of ELM and to guarantee the optimal solutions, evolutionary algorithms, namely, genetic algorithm (GA) [18], particle swarm optimisation (PSO) [19], and differential evolution (DE) [20] have been embedded with ELM. Some of the evolutionary ELM methods, namely, GA‐based ELM [21], PSO‐based ELM [22], DE‐based ELM [23], artificial bee colony(ABC)‐based ELM [24], and cuckoo search‐based ELM [15] have been developed in the literature in the recent past.…”