International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 154 - Number 1 |
Year of Publication: 2016 |
Authors: Tuan Linh Dang, Thang Cao, Yukinobu Hoshino |
10.5120/ijca2016912022 |
Tuan Linh Dang, Thang Cao, Yukinobu Hoshino . Data Pre-processing for a Neural Network Trained by an Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm. International Journal of Computer Applications. 154, 1 ( Nov 2016), 1-8. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016912022
This paper proposes an improved version of particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for the training of a neural network (NN). An architecture for the NN trained by PSO (standard PSO, improved PSO) is also introduced. This architecture has a data preprocessing mechanism which consists of a normalization module and a data-shuffling module. Experimental results showed that the NN trained by improved PSO (IPSO) achieved better performance than both the NN trained by standard PSO and the NN trained by back-propagation (BP) algorithm. The effectiveness concerning the recognition rate and the minimum learning error of the data preprocessing modules (normalization module, data-shuffling module) was also demonstrated through the experiments.