• DocumentCode
    328292
  • Title

    Reducing the herd effect in the backpropagation algorithm

  • Author

    Choong, Poh Lian ; Desilva, Christopher J S

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Western Australia Univ., Nedlands, WA, Australia
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    25-29 Oct. 1993
  • Firstpage
    581
  • Abstract
    The backpropagation algorithm is the most popular training algorithm for the multilayer perceptron, despite its slowness. Part of this slowness may be attributed to a phenomenon of the training process that has been called the herd effect. This paper describes a modification of the original backpropagation algorithm that is intended to reduce or eliminate the herd effect and reports on some performance comparisons.
  • Keywords
    backpropagation; convergence of numerical methods; multilayer perceptrons; backpropagation; dilution factor; herd effect; learning process; multilayer perceptron; neural nets; Artificial neural networks; Backpropagation algorithms; Convergence; Cows; Helium; Information processing; Intelligent systems; Mean square error methods; Multilayer perceptrons; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Neural Networks, 1993. IJCNN '93-Nagoya. Proceedings of 1993 International Joint Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-1421-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IJCNN.1993.713982
  • Filename
    713982