Nonlinear stretching for enhanced learning of the backpropagation algorithm in target recognition

✍ Scribed by Yi Ge; Soyoung S. Cha; Jiajun Zhang; Li Zhang; Anzhi He

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 147 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-2477
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2760(19971220)16:6<334::aid-mop4>3.0.co;2-l

✦ Synopsis

In spite of its relati¨ely slow learning speed, backpropaga-( ) tion BP is one of the most popular neural network training algorithms.

Here, a method based on nonlinear stretching is presented that modifies the acti¨ation function in a BP algorithm to speed up the con¨ergence in