A New Multi-layer Perceptrons Trainer Based on Ant Lion Optimization Algorithm

In this paper, Ant Lion Optimizer (ALO) was presented to train Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP). ALO was used to find the weights and biases of the MLP to achieve a minimum error and a high classification rate. Four standard classification datasets were used to benchmark the performance of the proposed method. In addition, the performance of the proposed method were compared with three well-known optimization algorithms, namely, Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). The experimental results showed that the ALO algorithm with the MLP was very competitive as it solved the local optima problem and achieved a high accuracy rate.