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Neural networks are just regressors. Yes you can learn the weights with genetic algorithms. Is this advised? Not so much : 99.99% of neural networks are trained
by erichahn 6y ago
Neural networks are just regressors. Yes you can learn the weights with genetic algorithms. Is this advised? Not so much : 99.99% of neural networks are trained with some variation of gradient descent on a specified loss function.
I don't even know if I agree to the statement. Polynomial regression solves basically the same problem as neural networks but performs way, way, way worse on big datasets. But nonetheless I would say that polynomial regression is machine learning too.
- Der_Einzige 6y agoThis post isn't about learning NN weights with GAs, Also the reinforcement learning community does a significant amount of it's work with neural networks which are not trained using gradients. Gradient free training is a highly active research area. More like 90% of neural networks are trained with gradient descent