An improved method for automatically searching near-optimal artificial neural networks

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2235-2242

  Almeida, Leandro M ^a   Ludermir, Teresa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS;

EVOLUTIONARY SEARCH; INITIAL WEIGHTS; LEARNING RULES; MULTILAYER FEEDFORWARD ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; NEAR-OPTIMAL;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 56349155040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2008.4634107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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