A Novel Genetic Neural Network Algorithm with Link Switches and Its Application in University Professional Course Evaluation.

Journal: Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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Abstract

This study exploits a novel enhanced genetic neural network algorithm with link switches (EGA-NNLS) to model the professional university course evaluating system. Various indices should be employed to evaluate the learning effect of a professional course comprehensively and objectively, and the traditional artificial evaluation methods cannot achieve this goal. The presented data-driven modeling method, EGA-NNLS, combines a neural network with link switches (NN-LS) with an enhanced genetic algorithm (EGA) and the Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) algorithm. It employs an optimized network structure combined with EGA and NN-LS to learn the relationships between the system's input and output from historical data and uses the network's gradient information via the LM algorithm. Compared with the traditional backpropagation neural network (BPNN), EGA-NNLS achieves a faster convergence speed and higher evaluation precision. In order to verify the efficiency of EGA-NNLS, it is applied to a collection of experimental data for modeling the professional university course evaluating system.

Authors

  • Honghai Ji
    Department of Electrical and Control Engineering, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China.
  • Jinyao Zhou
    Department of Electrical and Control Engineering, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China.
  • Shida Liu
    Department of Electrical and Control Engineering, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China.
  • Li Wang
    College of Marine Electrical Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China.
  • Lingling Fan
    Department of Automation, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China.