Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Deep Learning

Deep learning (DL) is a new area of research in machine learning, in which the objective is moving us closer to the goal of artificial intelligent. This method can learn many levels of abstraction and representation to create a common sense of data such as text, sound and image. Although DL is useful for a variety of tasks, it's hard to train. Some methods in training deep learning to make it optimal have been proposed, including Stochastic Gradient Descent, Conjugate Gradient, Hessian-free optimization, and Krylov Subspace Descent. In this paper, we proposed Simulated Annealing (SA) to improve the performance of Convolution Neural Network (CNN), as an alternative approach for optimal DL using modern optimization technique, i. e. metaheuristic algorithm. MNIST dataset is used to ensure the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method. Moreover, we also compare our proposed method with the original of CNN. Although there is an increase in computation time, the experiment results show that the proposed method can improve the performance of original CNN. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.