Discovering efficient learning rules for feedforward neural networks using genetic programming

  • Authors:
  • Amr Radi;Riccardo Poli

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK;Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK

  • Venue:
  • Recent advances in intelligent paradigms and applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The Standard BackPropagation (SBP) algorithm is the most widely known and used learning method for training neural networks. Unfortunately, SBP suffers from several problems such as sensitivity to the initial conditions and very slow convergence. Here we describe how we used Genetic Programming, a search algorithm inspired by Darwinian evolution, to discover new supervised learning algorithms for neural networks which can overcome some of these problems. Comparing our new algorithms with SBP on different problems we show that these are faster, are more stable and have greater feature extracting capabilities.