Particle swarm optimization isn't usually seen as the first-choice technique for training a neural network but, as James McCaffrey demonstrates, it's a useful alternative. Particle swarm optimization ...

Although mathematically elegant, back-propagation isn't perfect. Instead consider using particle swarm optimization (PSO) to train your neural network; here's how. You can think of a neural network as ...

The new "cuckoo search" technique has been demonstrated successfully and is far better, they say, than other approaches including the advanced particle swarm optimisation approach. Almost every ...