Good Data Means Fast Neural Network Training Times

The Pyrenn Levenberg-Marquardt training algorithm for Feed-Forward Neural Networks is extremely fast – 0.140 seconds for a Neural controller which must simultaneously balance an inverted pendulum, mounted on a cart, while moving the cart back to the origin – watch the short video below.

In the vast majority of the Neural Network applications that I’ve developed, the training time was a tiny fraction of my time spent on the project. The major time hit on these kinds of efforts is not training time – instead it is the time spent to develop quality and robust training and test data sets (thinking it through and careful analysis of the data – many times this is an iterative process). If this is done correctly, the resultant Neural Networks are built extremely quickly and yield high performance.

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Originally my degree was in Aerospace Engineering but I started coding in school and was hooked. In those days it was FORTRAN and reverse Polish notation on my hand-held HP 41-CV computer. Later I learned C, Pascal, Matlab, Java, C++, HTML and Python. Now I'm learning Android (Java) with Android Studio. The main IDEs that I use are NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, and Android Studio.

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