Boundedness and convergence of online gradient method with penalty for feedforward neural networks

  • Authors:
  • Huisheng Zhang;Wei Wu;Fei Liu;Mingchen Yao

  • Affiliations:
  • Applied Mathematics Department, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China and Department of Mathematics, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China;Applied Mathematics Department, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China;Department of Statistics, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO;Applied Mathematics Department, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2009

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.01

Visualization

Abstract

In this brief, we consider an online gradient method with penalty for training feedforward neural networks. Specifically, the penalty is a term proportional to the norm of the weights. Its roles in the method are to control the magnitude of the weights and to improve the generalization performance of the network. By proving that the weights are automatically bounded in the network training with penalty, we simplify the conditions that are required for convergence of online gradient method in literature. A numerical example is given to support the theoretical analysis.