NDLI: Neural network ensembles and their application to traffic flow prediction in telecommunications networks

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Yao, X. Fischer, M. Brown, G.
Copyright Year	2001
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Comput. Sci., Birmingham Univ., UK (Yao, X.)
Abstract	It is well-known that large neural networks with many unshared weights can be very difficult to train. A neural network ensemble consisting of a number of individual neural networks usually performs better than a complex monolithic neural network. One of the motivations behind neural network ensembles is the divide-and-conquer strategy, where a complex problem is decomposed into different components each of which is tackled by an individual neural network. A promising algorithm for training neural network ensembles is the negative correlation learning algorithm which penalizes positive correlations among individual networks by introducing a penalty term in the error function. A penalty coefficient is used to balance the minimization of the error and the minimization of the correlation. It is often very difficult to select an optimal penalty coefficient for a given problem because as yet there is no systematic method available for setting the parameter. This paper first applies negative correlation learning to the traffic flow prediction problem, and then proposes an evolutionary approach to deciding the penalty coefficient automatically in negative correlation learning. Experimental results on the traffic flow prediction problem will be presented.
Sponsorship	Int. Neural Network Soc.
Starting Page	693
Ending Page	698
File Size	528482
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780370449
ISSN	10987576
DOI	10.1109/IJCNN.2001.939108
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2001-07-15
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Neural networks Telecommunication traffic Intelligent networks Management training Economic forecasting State estimation Aging Training data Application software Computer science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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