Anmerkungen:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 2002 erstellt
Beschreibung:
A new multi-layer artificial neural network learning algorithm based on pattern search method is proposed. The learning model is designed to provide a very simple and effective means of searching the minima of objective function of a multi-layer neural network directly without any knowledge of its derivatives. We test this algorithm on benchmark problems, such as (XOR), parity and Arabic numerals recognition problems. For all problems, the systems are shown to be trained efficiently by our method. As a simple direct search method, it can be applied in hardware implementations easily