Artificial neural network development by means of a novel combination of grammatical evolution and genetic algorithm

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@Article{journals/eaai/AhmadizarSAT15,

• author = "Fardin Ahmadizar and Khabat Soltanian and Fardin AkhlaghianTab and Ioannis Tsoulos",
• title = "Artificial neural network development by means of a novel combination of grammatical evolution and genetic algorithm",
• journal = "Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence",
• year = "2015",
• volume = "39",
• bibdate = "2015-02-23",
• bibsource = "DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/eaai/eaai39.html#AhmadizarSAT15",
• pages = "1--13",
• month = mar,
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, grammatical evolution, Neural networks, ANN, Adaptive penalty approach, Classification problems",
• ISSN = "0952-1976",
• URL = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0952197614002759",
• URL = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2014.11.003",
• abstract = "The most important problems with exploiting artificial neural networks (ANNs) are to design the network topology, which usually requires an excessive amount of expert's effort, and to train it. In this paper, a new evolutionary-based algorithm is developed to simultaneously evolve the topology and the connection weights of ANNs by means of a new combination of grammatical evolution (GE) and genetic algorithm (GA). GE is adopted to design the network topology while GA is incorporated for better weight adaptation. The proposed algorithm needs to invest a minimal expert's effort for customisation and is capable of generating any feedforward ANN with one hidden layer. Moreover, due to the fact that the generalisation ability of an ANN may decrease because of over fitting problems, the algorithm uses a novel adaptive penalty approach to simplify ANNs generated through the evolution process. As a result, it produces much simpler ANNs that have better generalization ability and are easy to implement. The proposed method is tested on some real world classification datasets, and the results are statistically compared against existing methods in the literature. The results indicate that our algorithm outperforms the other methods and provides the best overall performance in terms of the classification accuracy and the number of hidden neurons. The results also present the contribution of the proposed penalty approach in the simplicity and generalisation ability of the generated networks.",
• notes = "also known as \cite{AHMADIZAR20151}",

}

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