Training feedforward neural networks with dynamic particle swarm optimisation

Abstract

Particle swarm optimisation has been successfully applied to train feedforward neural networks in static environments.Many real-world problems to which neural networks are applied are dynamic in the sense that the underlying data distribution changes over time. In the context of classification problems, this leads to concept drift where decision boundaries may change over time. This article investigates the applicability of dynamic particle swarm optimisation algorithms as neural network training algorithms under the presence of concept drift.