Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm for FeedForward Neural Network Training

Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm (COA) is a new evolutionary algorithm which is inspired by the life of a species of bird, called cuckoo. COA has presented excellent capabilitiesin various optimization problems. In this paper, we want to adapt COA to train the weights of feedforward neural networks.For this purpose, COA has been applied on three known datasets (IRIS, WINE and PIMA) which are used for classification problem. The proposed approach has beencompared with two other training methods. In all datasets, the proposed approach has presented better performance against other algorithms