Title: Neural Network Design by Taguchi Method


Authors:

Akash Saxena

akash@skit.ac.in
Department of Electrical Engineering, Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology, Management and Gramothan, Jaipur-302017 (INDIA),

Deepak Saini

ijskit@skit.ac.in
Department of Electrical Engineering, Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology, Management and Gramothan, Jaipur-302017 (INDIA),

Shalini Shekhawat

ijskit@skit.ac.in
Department of Mathematics, Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology, Management & Gramothan Jaipur-302017, (INDIA)

Pages: 28-33


Abstract:

The development of new learning algorithms for design of the neural networks is a potential research area. The design of neural network is based on selection of the optimal parameters to achieve higher learning speed and accuracy during recall. These design parameters are weights, no. of hidden layers and no. of neurons. With this motivation, this paper presents an application of Taguchi method to meet high accuracy requirements. Three design factors are considered as control factors which are namely input representation scheme, no. of hidden layers and no. of input nodes to design the neural network. This design has been tested over three benchmark optimization functions. It is observed that the proposed network shows better accuracy.

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