Universal technique for optimization of neural network training parameters: gasoline near infrared data example

摘要

The universal technique of finding optimum training parameters for multi-layer perceptron—such as percentage of samples in a cross-validation set and quantities of training iterations with various initial values—is offered. This technique is aimed at the searching of optimum values of two complex factors depending on accuracy and convergence of a network, and also on the time of its training. Their conventional names are “cross-validation coefficient” and “training iteration coefficient”. Near infrared spectroscopy data for gasoline samples are used to evaluate the efficiency of the method.