Htet Thazin Tike Thein - University of Computer Studies, Yangon Yangon, Myanmar

There exist many approaches to training neural network. In this system, training for feed forward neural network is introduced by using island model based differential evolution. DifferentialEvolution (DE) has been used to determine optimal value for ANN parameters such as learning rate and momentum rate andalso for weight optimization. Island model used multiple subpopulations and exchanges the individual to boost the overallperformance of the algorithm. In this paper, four programs havedeveloped; Island Differential Evolution Neural Network (IDENN), Differential Evolution Neural Network (DENN),Genetic Algorithm Neural Network (GANN) and Particle Swarm Optimization with Neural Network (PSONN) to probe the impactof these methods on ANN learning using various datasets. The results have revealed that IDENN has given quite promisingresults in terms of convergence rate smaller errors compared to DENN, PSONN and GANN

Artificial neural network, Island Model, Differential Evolution, Particle Swarm Optimization, Genetic Algorithm