• DocumentCode
    2831211
  • Title

    A new dynamic optimal learning rate for a two-layer neural network

  • Author

    Zhang, Tong ; Chen, C. L Philip ; Wang, Chi-Hsu ; Tam, Sik Chung

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Univ. of Macau, Chung, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    June 30 2012-July 2 2012
  • Firstpage
    55
  • Lastpage
    59
  • Abstract
    The learning rate is crucial for the training process of a two-layer neural network (NN). Therefore, many researches have been done to find the optimal learning rate so that maximum error reduction can be achieved in all iterations. However, in this paper, we found that the best learning rate can be further improved. In saying so, we have revised the direction to search for a new dynamic optimal learning rate, which can have a better convergence in less iteration count than previous approach. There exists a ratio k between out new optimal learning rate and the previous one after the first iteration. In contrast to earlier approaches, the new optimal learning rate of the two-layer NN has a better performance in the same experiment. So we can conclude that our new dynamic optimal learning rate can be a very useful one for the applications of neural networks.
  • Keywords
    convergence; iterative methods; learning (artificial intelligence); neural nets; convergence; dynamic optimal learning rate; iteration count; maximum error reduction; training process; two-layer neural network; Artificial neural networks; Convergence; Equations; Heuristic algorithms; Training; Vectors; learning rate; neural network; new optimal learning rate; ratio k; two-layer NN;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    System Science and Engineering (ICSSE), 2012 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dalian, Liaoning
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0944-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0943-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSSE.2012.6257148
  • Filename
    6257148