Selection of training parameters for an enhanced artificial neural network architecture: a preliminary report

  • Authors:
  • Anastassios Tassopoulos;Petros A. M. Gelepithis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Economic and Regional Development, Panteion University, 136 L. Sygrou, Athens 17671, Greece;School of Computing and Information Systems, Kingston University, KT1 2EE, London, England

  • Venue:
  • Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The recent research escalation in the area of neural networks in business is due to the fact that the underlying structures and associated functions controlling business data are generally unknown. Neural networks offer a class of tools that can approximate financial patterns to a satisfactory degree of accuracy. The vast majority of relevant studies rely on a gradient algorithm, typically a variation of the backpropagation one.This paper uses the feed forward backpropagation (FBP) algorithm in order to improve the topology of predictive neural network for finance. It also identifies the most significant parameters of the training and the optimisation procedures and compares the performance of different back propagation feed forward neural networks' topologies. We show that an appropriate selection of the training parameters ensures convergence of the (FBP) and can be used for predictions in intelligent trading.