Discovery of backpropagation learning rules using genetic programming

Amr Radi*, Riccardo Poli

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The backpropagation learning rule is a widespread computational method for training multilayer networks. Unfortunately, backpropagation suffers from several problems. In this paper, we have used Genetic Programming (GP) to overcome some of these problems and to discover new supervised learning algorithms. A set of such learning algorithms has been compared with the Standard BackPropagation (SBP) learning algorithm on different problems and has been shown to provide better performances. This study indicates that there exist many supervised learning algorithms better than, but similar to, SBP and that GP can be used to discover them.

Original languageEnglish
Pages371-375
Number of pages5
Publication statusPublished - 1998
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, ICEC'98 - Anchorage, AK, USA
Duration: May 4 1998May 9 1998

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, ICEC'98
CityAnchorage, AK, USA
Period5/4/985/9/98

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • General Engineering

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