An efficient learning algorithm for feedforward neural network

BP algorithm is frequently applied to train feedforward neural network, but it often suffers from slowness of convergence speed. In this paper, an efficient learning algorithm and its improved algorithm based on local search are proposed. Computer simulations with standard problems such as XOR, Parity, TwoNorm and MushRoom problems are presented and compared with BP algorithm. Experimental results indicate that our proposed algorithms achieve accuracy much better than BP algorithm and convergence speed much faster than BP algorithm, and the generalization of our proposed algorithms for TwoNorm and MushRoom problems is comparable to BP algorithm.