Evolutionary design and training of artificial neural networks

Abstract

The dynamics of neural networks and evolutionary algorithms share common attributes and based on many research papers it seems to be that from dynamic point of view are both systems indistinguishable. In order to compare them mutually from this point of view, artificial neural networks, as similar as possible to natural one, are needed. In this paper is described part of our research that is focused on the synthesis of artificial neural networks. Since most current ANN structures are not common in nature, we introduce a method of a complex network synthesis using network growth model, considered as a neural network. Synaptic weights of the synthesized ANN are then trained by an evolutionary algorithm to respond to an input training set successfully.