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It is important in EPNet to train a CNN first without modifying its architecture. This retlects the emphasis on a close behavioural link between the parent and its offspring. The hybrid training algorithm used in EPNet is not a critical choice in the whole system. Its main purpose is to discourage architectural mutations if training, which often intro duces smaller behavioural changes in comparison with architectural mutations, can produce a satisfactory CNN. Other training algorithms which are faster and can avoid poor local minima can also be used (Yao and Liu 1996b, Yao, Liu and Lin 1999).
In formulating CNN solutions for [large-scale] real world problems, we seek to minimize the resulting algorithmic complexity and, therefore, the time required for a learning algorithm to estimate a solution from training patterns. 7 A Taxonomy of Computational Neural Networks A taxonomy of four important families of computational neural network models [backpropagation networks, radial basis function networks, supervised and unsupervised ART models, and self-organizing feature map networks] that seem particularly attractive for solving real world spatial analysis problems is presented in Fig.
If the trained CNN is better than the worst CNN in the population, the worst CNN will be replaced by the trained one and no further mutation will take place. Otherwise node/connection addition will be attempted. Connection and Node Addition. 8). They are selected from those connections with zero weights. The added connections are initialized with sm all random weights. The new CNN will be partially trained by the MBP and denoted as Gjftpring I. Node addition is implemented through splitting an existing hidden node, a process called 'cell division' by Odri, Petrovacki and Krstonosic (1993).