Effectiveness of Swarm-Based Metaheuristic Algorithm in Data Classification Using Pi-Sigma Higher Order Neural Network

摘要

In this paper, Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA) is employed in training the Higher Order Neural Network (HONN) for data classification task. In machine learning approach, to train artificial neural network is considered a difficult task which gains the attention of researchers recently. The difficulty of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) arises due to its nonlinearity nature and unknown set of initial parameters. Traditional training algorithms exhibit poor performance in terms of local optima avoidance and convergence rate, for which metaheuristic based optimization emerges as a suitable alternative. The performance of the proposed SSA-based HONN method has been verified by considering various classification measures over benchmark datasets chosen from UCI repository and the outcome obtained by the said method is compared with the state-of-art evolutionary algorithms. From the outcome reported, the proposed method outperforms over the recent algorithms which confirm its supremacy in terms of better exploration and exploitation capability.