title: Evolving space-filling curves to distribute radial basis functions over an input space.
abstract: An evolutionary neural network training algorithm is proposed for radial basis function (RBF) networks. The locations of basis function centers are not directly encoded in a genetic string, but are governed by space-filling curves whose parameters evolve genetically. This encoding causes each group of codetermined basis functions to evolve to fit a region of the input space. A network produced from this encoding is evaluated by training its output connections only. Networks produced by this evolutionary algorithm appear to have better generalization performance on the Mackey-Glass time series than corresponding networks whose centers are determined by k-means clustering.
authors.affiliation: Univ. of Tennessee Space Inst., Tullahoma, TN.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Whitehead
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Choate