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Main Authors: Schreuder, Arné, Bosman, Anna, Engelbrecht, Andries, Cleghorn, Christopher
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16912
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author Schreuder, Arné
Bosman, Anna
Engelbrecht, Andries
Cleghorn, Christopher
author_facet Schreuder, Arné
Bosman, Anna
Engelbrecht, Andries
Cleghorn, Christopher
contents The process of training feedforward neural networks (FFNNs) can benefit from an automated process where the best heuristic to train the network is sought out automatically by means of a high-level probabilistic-based heuristic. This research introduces a novel population-based Bayesian hyper-heuristic (BHH) that is used to train feedforward neural networks (FFNNs). The performance of the BHH is compared to that of ten popular low-level heuristics, each with different search behaviours. The chosen heuristic pool consists of classic gradient-based heuristics as well as meta-heuristics (MHs). The empirical process is executed on fourteen datasets consisting of classification and regression problems with varying characteristics. The BHH is shown to be able to train FFNNs well and provide an automated method for finding the best heuristic to train the FFNNs at various stages of the training process.
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spellingShingle Training Feedforward Neural Networks with Bayesian Hyper-Heuristics
Schreuder, Arné
Bosman, Anna
Engelbrecht, Andries
Cleghorn, Christopher
Machine Learning
The process of training feedforward neural networks (FFNNs) can benefit from an automated process where the best heuristic to train the network is sought out automatically by means of a high-level probabilistic-based heuristic. This research introduces a novel population-based Bayesian hyper-heuristic (BHH) that is used to train feedforward neural networks (FFNNs). The performance of the BHH is compared to that of ten popular low-level heuristics, each with different search behaviours. The chosen heuristic pool consists of classic gradient-based heuristics as well as meta-heuristics (MHs). The empirical process is executed on fourteen datasets consisting of classification and regression problems with varying characteristics. The BHH is shown to be able to train FFNNs well and provide an automated method for finding the best heuristic to train the FFNNs at various stages of the training process.
title Training Feedforward Neural Networks with Bayesian Hyper-Heuristics
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16912