An evolutionary method for the design of generic neural networks

  • Authors:
  • D. Edwards;K. Brown;N. Taylor

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Comput. & Electr. Eng., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK;Dept. of Comput. & Electr. Eng., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK;Dept. of Comput. & Electr. Eng., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK

  • Venue:
  • CEC '02 Proceedings of the Evolutionary Computation on 2002. CEC '02. Proceedings of the 2002 Congress - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Hybrid systems using evolution to optimize neural network design or training are usually limited in scope and effectiveness. A system is presented that permits the widest variety of networks to be evolved using a two-stage GA approach. Networks generated for a benchmark machine learning task compare favourably with alternative methods.