Hardware enhancements to radial basis function with restricted coulomb energy learning and/or k-Nearest Neighbor based neural network classifiers

A nonlinear neuron classifier comprising:

• a neuron array that comprises a plurality of neurons that have variable component length and variable depth, and that processes an input vector of variable component length and variable component depth that is input into the classifier for comparison against vectors stored in the classifier;
• a system bus interface configured to detect and capture the input vector;
• logic that is connected in parallel to individual neurons in the classifier and that broadcasts the input vector concurrently to neurons that store vectors of similar component length and depth, for vector calculations;
• and
• storage configured as internal status and results registers that are accessible by hardware external to the classifier, the status and results registers comprising a combination of registers of varied length configured to store each of the plurality of neurons relating to at least one context.