Neuron-synapse level problem decomposition method for cooperative coevolution of recurrent networks for time series prediction

Abstract

The decomposition of a particular problem can become a tiresome task if little connections between the elements is needed. In cooperative coevolution of recurrent networks, synapse and neuron level are the two noteworthy problem decomposition methods. Through combination of both of the problem decomposition methods, the individual problem decomposition methods can share its strengths to solve the problem at hand better. In this paper, a recently proposed problem decomposition method known as Neuron-Synapse problem decomposition method is modified for Elman recurrent neural networks. The results reveal that the proposed method has got better results in selected datasets when compared to standalone methods. The results are better in some cases for proposed method when compared to other approaches from the literature.