Adjusting Weights and Architecture of Neural Networks through PSO with Time-Varying Parameters and Early Stopping

  • Authors:
  • Lamartine A. Teixeira;Felipe T. G. Oliveira;Adriano L. I. Oliveira;Carmelo J. A. Bastos Filho

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SBRN '08 Proceedings of the 2008 10th Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents results of an approach to optimize architecture and weights of MLP Neural Networks, which is based on Particle Swarm Optimization with time-varying parameters and early stopping criteria. This approach was shown to achieve a good generalization control, as well as similar or better results than other techniques, but with a lower computational cost, with the ability to generate small networks and with the advantage of the automated architecture selection, which simplify the training process.