In this brief, a new one-step-ahead numerical differentiation rule called six-instant -cube finite difference (6I CFD) formula is proposed for the first-order derivative approximation with higher precision than existing finite difference formulas (i.e., Euler and Taylor types). Subsequently, by exploiting the proposed 6I CFD formula to discretize the continuous-time Zhang neural network model, two new-type discrete-time ZNN (DTZNN) models, namely, new-type DTZNNK and DTZNNU models, are designed and generalized to compute the least-squares solution of dynamic linear equation system with time-varying rank-deficient coefficient in real time, which is quite different from the existing ZNN-related studies on solving continuous-time and discrete-time (dynamic or static) linear equation systems in the context of full-rank coefficients. Specifically, the corresponding dynamic normal equation system, of which the solution exactly corresponds to the least-squares solution of dynamic linear equation system, is elegantly introduced to solve such a rank-deficient least-squares problem efficiently and accurately. Theoretical analyses show that the maximal steady-state residual errors of the two new-type DTZNN models have an pattern, where denotes the sampling gap. Comparative numerical experimental results further substantiate the superior computational performance of the new-type DTZNN models to solve the rank-deficient least-squares problem of dynamic linear equation systems.
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