Evolutionary Training of Binary Neural Networks by Evolution Strategy
Keywords:
Evolutionary algorithm, Evolution strategy, Neural network, Network quantization, NeuroevolutionAbstract
A problem with deep neural networks is that the memory size for recording a trained model becomes large. A solution to this problem is to make the parameter values binary. A challenge for the binary neural networks is that they cannot be trained by the ordinary gradient-based optimization methods. This paper applies Evolution Strategy (ES), an instance of evolutionary algorithms, to the training of binary neural networks and evaluates its ability. The experimental results with the classification task revealed that ES could well optimize parameter values so that the trained model accurately classify both trained and untrained data, if the hidden layer included sufficient units. As the binary parameter value, {-1,1} was found to be significantly better than {0,1}.
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