A new three-term conjugate gradient method for training neural networks with global convergence

A conjugate gradient based method for Decision Neural Network training

Decision Neural Network is a new approach for solving multi-objective decision-making problems based on artificial neural networks. Using inaccurate evaluation data, network training has improved and the number of educational data sets has decreased. The available training method is based on the gradient decent method (BP). One of its limitations is related to its convergence speed. Therefore,...

Deterministic convergence of conjugate gradient method for feedforward neural networks

Conjugate gradient methods have many advantages in real numerical experiments, such as fast convergence and low memory requirements. This paper considers a class of conjugate gradient learning methods for backpropagation (BP) neural networks with three layers. We propose a new learning algorithm for almost cyclic BP neural networks based on PRP conjugate gradient method. We then establish the d...

Conjugate gradient algorithm for training neural networks

Conjugate Gradient Methods in Training Neural Networks

Training of artificial neural networks is normally a time consuming task due to iterative search imposed by the implicit nonlinearity of the network behavior. To tackle the supervised learning of multilayer feed forward neural networks, the backpropagation algorithm has been proven to be one of the most successful neural network algorithm. Although backpropagation training has proved to be effi...

Global convergence of a modified spectral FR conjugate gradient method

A modified spectral PRP conjugate gradient method is presented for solving unconstrained optimization problems. The constructed search direction is proved to be a sufficiently descent direction of the objective function. With an Armijo-type line search to determinate the step length, a new spectral PRP conjugate algorithm is developed. Under some mild conditions, the theory of global convergenc...