International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

EISSN: 2313-3724

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Volume 4, Issue 8  (August 2017), Pages:  68-73


Title: Performance comparison of second order conjugate algorithms in neural networks for predictive data mining

Author(s):  Parveen Sehgal 1, *, Sangeeta Gupta 2, Dharminder Kumar 3

Affiliation(s):

1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIMS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan-303121, India
2Guru Nanak Institute of Management, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi-110026, India
3Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana-125001, India

https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.08.010

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Abstract:

In this paper, a performance comparison of several variations of the non-linear conjugate gradient method has been investigated. Neural Network-based prediction models for life insurance sector have been developed and their training has been done with a variety of first and second order algorithms to find an efficient training algorithm, but keeping the focus on conjugate gradient based methods. Traditional second order methods require computation of second order derivatives and need to compute hessian for quadratic termination; which is a tedious and memory consuming task. Here we employ conjugate gradient methods which bypass the computation of hessian, but still achieve quadratic termination and thus prove to be memory efficient. 

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Keywords: Artificial neural networks, Conjugate gradient, Line search, Numerical optimization, Prediction modeling

Article History: Received 19 March 2017, Received in revised form 15 May 2017, Accepted 10 June 2017

Digital Object Identifier: 

https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.08.010

Citation:

Sehgal P, Gupta S, and Kumar D (2017). Performance comparison of second order conjugate algorithms in neural networks for predictive data mining. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 4(8): 68-73

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