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This paper presents a neural network architecture capable of solving numerically any set of n nonlinear equations with n unknowns

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Nonlinear systems of equations are used extensively in science and the development of approaches for solving them is an issue of central importance

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This paper presents anMLP-type neural network with some fixed connections and a backpropagation-type training algorithm that identifies the full set of solutions of a complete system of nonlinear algebraic equations with n equations and n unknowns. The proposed structure is based on a backpropagation-type algorithm with bias units in output neurons layer. Its novelty and innovation with respect to similar structures is the use of the hyperbolic tangent output function associated with an interesting feature, the use of adaptive learning rate for the neurons of the second hidden layer, a feature that adds a high degree of flexibility and parameter tuning during the network training stage. The paper presents the theoretical aspects for this approach as well as a set of experimental results that justify the necessity of such an architecture and evaluate its performance.

Dr Athanasios I Margaris
University of Macedonia

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This page is a summary of: An adaptive learning rate backpropagation-type neural network for solvingn×nsystems on nonlinear algebraic equations, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, September 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/mma.3715.
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