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Designing Convolutional Neural Network Architecture Using Genetic Algorithms

Open Access
|Feb 2021

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Figure 1.

An example of CNN architecture [10]
An example of CNN architecture [10]

Figure 2.

The process of convolution on the left-hand corner of an image
The process of convolution on the left-hand corner of an image

Figure 3.

Population of three chromosomes
Population of three chromosomes

Figure 4.

Single-point crossover
Single-point crossover

Figure 5.

Two-point crossover
Two-point crossover

Figure 6.

Representation of a GA chromosome
Representation of a GA chromosome

Figure 7.

Representation of the hyper-parameters in binary format
Representation of the hyper-parameters in binary format

Figure 8.

Generated CNN architecture after GA tuning
Generated CNN architecture after GA tuning

Parameters of the genetic operations

ParametersValue
Tournament selection size2
Crossover Probability50%
Mutation probability80%
Genes Mutated10%

Highest fitness values obtained during each of the 10 experiments

Exp. No.Highest Fitness Value
10.984499992943
20.973899998105
30.988800008184
40.991900001359
50.947799991965
60.949000005102
70.983099997652
80.979799999475
90.956399999567
100.972350000068

The various hyper parameters in CNN with their ranges

Hyper parameterRange
No. of Epoch(0 – 127)
Batch Size(0 – 256)
No. of Convolution Layers(0 – 8)
No. of Filters at each Convo layer(0 – 64)
Convo Filter Size at each Convo layer(0 – 8)
Activations used at each Convo layer(sigmoid, tanh, relu, linear)
Maxpool layer after each Convo layer(true, false)
Maxpool Pool Size for each Maxpool layer(0 – 8)
No. of Feed-Forward Hidden Layers(0 – 8)
No. of Feed-Forward Hidden Neurons at each layer(0 – 64)
Activations used at each Feed-Forward layer(sigmoid, tanh, softmax, relu)
Optimizer(Adagrad, Adadelta, RMS, SGD)
Language: English
Page range: 26 - 35
Published on: Feb 22, 2021
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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© 2021 Ashray Bhandare, Devinder Kaur, published by Xi’an Technological University
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