Learning enhancement of radial basis function neural network with harmony search algorithm

Training Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) was considered as a major breakthrough, that overcome the stuck to the local minimum of Back Propagation (BP) and time consuming and computation expensive problems of Genetic Algorithm (GA). However, PSO prove...

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Main Author: Ahmed, Mohamed Hassan
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Published: 2013
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spelling my-utm-ep.365312017-07-05T04:10:42Z Learning enhancement of radial basis function neural network with harmony search algorithm 2013-07 Ahmed, Mohamed Hassan QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Training Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) was considered as a major breakthrough, that overcome the stuck to the local minimum of Back Propagation (BP) and time consuming and computation expensive problems of Genetic Algorithm (GA). However, PSO proved some problems to achieve the goal, i.e., it converged too fast so that it stuck to the local optimum. Furthermore, particles may move to an invisible region. Therefore, to realize the enhancement of the learning process of RBF and overcome these PSO problems, Harmony Search Meta-Heuristic Algorithm (HSA) was employed to optimize the RBF network and attain the desired objectives. The study conducted a comparative experiments between the integrated HSA-RBF network and the PSORBF network. The results proved that HSA increased the learning capability of RBF neural network in terms of accuracy and correct classification percentage, error convergence rate, and less time consumption with less mean squared error (MSE). The new HSA-RBF model provided higher performance in most cases and promising results with better classification proficiency compared with that of PSO-RBF network. 2013-07 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/36531/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/36531/5/MohamedHassanAhmedMFSKSM2013.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:69961?site_name=Restricted Repository masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
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topic QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
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Computer science
Ahmed, Mohamed Hassan
Learning enhancement of radial basis function neural network with harmony search algorithm
description Training Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) was considered as a major breakthrough, that overcome the stuck to the local minimum of Back Propagation (BP) and time consuming and computation expensive problems of Genetic Algorithm (GA). However, PSO proved some problems to achieve the goal, i.e., it converged too fast so that it stuck to the local optimum. Furthermore, particles may move to an invisible region. Therefore, to realize the enhancement of the learning process of RBF and overcome these PSO problems, Harmony Search Meta-Heuristic Algorithm (HSA) was employed to optimize the RBF network and attain the desired objectives. The study conducted a comparative experiments between the integrated HSA-RBF network and the PSORBF network. The results proved that HSA increased the learning capability of RBF neural network in terms of accuracy and correct classification percentage, error convergence rate, and less time consumption with less mean squared error (MSE). The new HSA-RBF model provided higher performance in most cases and promising results with better classification proficiency compared with that of PSO-RBF network.
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author Ahmed, Mohamed Hassan
author_facet Ahmed, Mohamed Hassan
author_sort Ahmed, Mohamed Hassan
title Learning enhancement of radial basis function neural network with harmony search algorithm
title_short Learning enhancement of radial basis function neural network with harmony search algorithm
title_full Learning enhancement of radial basis function neural network with harmony search algorithm
title_fullStr Learning enhancement of radial basis function neural network with harmony search algorithm
title_full_unstemmed Learning enhancement of radial basis function neural network with harmony search algorithm
title_sort learning enhancement of radial basis function neural network with harmony search algorithm
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing
granting_department Faculty of Computing
publishDate 2013
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/36531/5/MohamedHassanAhmedMFSKSM2013.pdf
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