A Hybrid of Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization for Feedforward Neural Network Training

A hybrid of artificial fish swarm algorithm (AFSA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) is used to training feedforward neural network. After the two algorithms are introduced respectively, the hybrid algorithm based on the two is expressed. The hybrid not only has the artificial fish behaviors of swarm and follow, but also takes advantage of the information of the particle. An experiment with a function approximation is simulated, which proves that the hybrid is more effective than AFSA and PSO.