Learning and Evolution in Artificial Neural Networks: A Comparison Study

Eva Volna

2008

Abstract

This paper aims at learning and evolution in artificial neural networks. Here is presented a system evolving populations of neural nets that are fully connected multilayer feedforward networks with fixed architecture solving given tasks. The system is compared with gradient descent weight training (like backpropagation) and with hybrid neural network adaptation. All neural networks have the same architecture and solve the same problems to be able to be compared mutually. In order to test the efficiency of described algorithms, we applied them to the Fisher's Iris data set [1] that is the bench test database from the area of machine learning.

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Volna E. (2008). Learning and Evolution in Artificial Neural Networks: A Comparison Study . In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing - Volume 1: ANNIIP, (ICINCO 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-33-3, pages 10-17. DOI: 10.5220/0001506900100017


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@conference{anniip08,
author={Eva Volna},
title={Learning and Evolution in Artificial Neural Networks: A Comparison Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing - Volume 1: ANNIIP, (ICINCO 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={10-17},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001506900100017},
isbn={978-989-8111-33-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing - Volume 1: ANNIIP, (ICINCO 2008)
TI - Learning and Evolution in Artificial Neural Networks: A Comparison Study
SN - 978-989-8111-33-3
AU - Volna E.
PY - 2008
SP - 10
EP - 17
DO - 10.5220/0001506900100017