An evolutionary approach for tuning artificial neural network parameters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5271 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 156-163

  Almeida, Leandro M ^a   Ludermir, Teresa B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Architectures; Artificial neural network parameterization; Evolutionary algorithms; Genetic algorithms; Initial weights; Learning rules

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM PARAMETERS; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; EVOLUTIONARY SEARCH; INITIAL WEIGHTS; LEARNING RULES; SEARCH TIME;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70350539341     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87656-4_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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