A possible genetic-algorithm based method for optimizing a class of ANN transfer functions

Abstract

This paper proposes a hybrid of two methods to determine the weight-constants in a class of artificial neuron networks, ANNs. The class of ANNs we are interested in are characterized by feed-forward processing elements. One of the methods is the genetic algorithm, GA; the other is "training through" back-propagation of the error, BPE. We expect our hybrid scheme to be faster than using BPE alone.