HYBRID NSGA-II OPTIMIZATION FOR IMPROVING THE THREE-TERM BP NETWORK FOR MULTICLASS CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS

Authors

  • Ashraf Osman Ibrahim Faculty of Computer and Technology, Alzaiem Alazhari University,Khartoum North, Sudan
  • Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin UTM Big Data Centre, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Sultan Noman Qasem College of Computer and Information Sciences, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Keywords:

Artificial Neural Network, hybridization technique, genetic algorithm, NSGA-II, multiobjective optimization

Abstract

Recently, hybrid algorithms have received considerable attention from a number of researchers. This paper presents a hybrid of the multiobjective evolutionary algorithm to gain a better accuracy of the fi nal solutions. The aim of using the hybrid algorithm is to improve the multiobjective evolutionary algorithm performance in terms of the enhancement of all the individuals in the population and increase the quality of the Pareto optimal solutions. The multiobjective evolutionary algorithm used in this study is a nondominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II) together with its hybrid, the backpropagation algorithm (BP), which is used as a local search algorithm to optimize the accuracy and complexity of the three-term backpropagation (TBP) network. The outcome positively demonstrates that the hybrid algorithm is able to improve the classification performance with a smaller number of hidden nodes and is effective in multiclass classifi cation problems. Furthermore, the results indicate that the proposed hybrid method is a potentially useful classifi er for enhancing the classification process ability when compared with the multiobjective genetic algorithm based on the TBP network (MOGATBP) and certain other methods found in the literature.

 

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Published

28-04-2015

How to Cite

Ibrahim, A. O., Shamsuddin, S. M., & Qasem, S. N. (2015). HYBRID NSGA-II OPTIMIZATION FOR IMPROVING THE THREE-TERM BP NETWORK FOR MULTICLASS CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS. Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 14, 21–38. Retrieved from https://e-journal.uum.edu.my/index.php/jict/article/view/8154