title: A Model for Improving the Learning Curves of Artificial Neural Networks.
abstract: In this article, the performance of a hybrid artificial neural network (i.e. scale-free and small-world) was analyzed and its learning curve compared to three other topologies: random, scale-free and small-world, as well as to the chemotaxis neural network of the nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans. One hundred equivalent networks (same number of vertices and average degree) for each topology were generated and each was trained for one thousand epochs. After comparing the mean learning curves of each network topology with the C. elegans neural network, we found that the networks that exhibited preferential attachment exhibited the best learning curves.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Modelagem Computational, SENAI CIMATEC, Av. Orlando Gomes 1845, Salvador, 41.650-010, Brazil.|Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, Brasil.
authors.forename: Roberto L S
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Monteiro
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil.
authors.forename: Tereza Kelly G
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Carneiro
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, Brasil.
authors.forename: José Roberto A
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Fontoura
authors.affiliation: Programa de Modelagem Computational, SENAI CIMATEC, Av. Orlando Gomes 1845, Salvador, 41.650-010, Brazil.
authors.forename: Valéria L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.affiliation: Programa de Modelagem Computational, SENAI CIMATEC, Av. Orlando Gomes 1845, Salvador, 41.650-010, Brazil.|Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, Brasil.
authors.forename: Marcelo A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Moret
authors.affiliation: Programa de Modelagem Computational, SENAI CIMATEC, Av. Orlando Gomes 1845, Salvador, 41.650-010, Brazil.|Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, Brasil.
authors.forename: Hernane Borges de Barros
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Pereira
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000378:metabolism*; D059032:Learning Curve; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer