An Experimental Study on Competitive Coevolution of MLP Classifiers

dc.contributor.authorCastellani, Marco
dc.contributor.authorLalchandani, Rahul
dc.coverage.issue1cs
dc.coverage.volume23cs
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-26T10:18:08Z
dc.date.available2019-06-26T10:18:08Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-01cs
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the effectiveness and efficiency of two competitive (predator-prey) evolutionaryprocedures for training multi-layer perceptron classifiers: Co-Adaptive Neural Network Training, and a modifiedversion of Co-Evolutionary Neural Network Training. The study focused on how the performance of the two procedures varies as the size of the training set increases, and their ability to redress class imbalance problems of increasing severity. Compared to the customary backpropagation algorithm and a standard evolutionary algorithm, the two competitive procedures excelled in terms of quality of the solutions and execution speed. Co-Adaptive Neural Network Training excelled on class imbalance problems, and on classification problems of moderately large training sets. Co-Evolutionary Neural Network Training performed best on the largest data sets. The size of the training set was the most problematic issue for the backpropagation algorithm and the standard evolutionary algorithm, respectively in terms of accuracy of the solutions and execution speed. Backpropagation and the evolutionary algorithm were also not competitive on the class imbalance problems, where data oversampling could only partially remedy their shortcomings.en
dc.formattextcs
dc.format.extent41-48cs
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMendel. 2017 vol. 23, č. 1, s. 41-48. ISSN 1803-3814cs
dc.identifier.doi10.13164/mendel.2017.1.041en
dc.identifier.issn2571-3701
dc.identifier.issn1803-3814
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11012/179197
dc.language.isoencs
dc.publisherInstitute of Automation and Computer Science, Brno University of Technologycs
dc.relation.ispartofMendelcs
dc.relation.urihttps://mendel-journal.org/index.php/mendel/article/view/50cs
dc.rights.accessopenAccessen
dc.subjectevolutionary algorithmsen
dc.subjectcoevolutionen
dc.subjectpredator-prey systemsen
dc.subjectmulti-layer perceptronen
dc.subjectpattern classificationen
dc.titleAn Experimental Study on Competitive Coevolution of MLP Classifiersen
dc.type.driverarticleen
dc.type.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
eprints.affiliatedInstitution.facultyFakulta strojního inženýrstvícs
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