کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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409846 | 679099 | 2012 | 7 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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The backpropagation (BP) algorithm is widely recognized as a powerful tool for training feedforward neural networks (FNNs). However, since the algorithm employs the steepest descent technique to adjust the network weights, it suffers from a slow convergence rate and often produces suboptimal solutions, which are the two major drawbacks of BP. This paper proposes a modified BP algorithm which can remarkably alleviate the problem of local minima confronted with by the standard BP (SBP). As one output of the modified training procedure, a bucket of all the possible solutions of weights matrices found during training is acquired, among which the best solution is chosen competitively based upon their performances on a validation dataset. Simulations are conducted on four benchmark classification tasks to compare and evaluate the classification performances and generalization capabilities of the proposed modified BP and SBP.
Journal: Neurocomputing - Volume 94, 1 October 2012, Pages 152–158