Optimizing artificial neural network architectures for enhanced soil type classification


AYDIN Y., BEKDAŞ G., Işıkdağ Ü., NİGDELİ S. M., Geem Z. W.

Geomechanics and Engineering, cilt.37, sa.3, ss.263-277, 2024 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 37 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.12989/gae.2024.37.3.263
  • Dergi Adı: Geomechanics and Engineering
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), Compendex
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.263-277
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: artificial neural networks, bio-inspired methods, hyperparameter optimization, soil classification
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa Adresli: Evet

Özet

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are artificial learning algorithms that provide successful results in solving many machine learning problems such as classification, prediction, object detection, object segmentation, image and video classification. There is an increasing number of studies that use ANNs as a prediction tool in soil classification. The aim of this research was to understand the role of hyperparameter optimization in enhancing the accuracy of ANNs for soil type classification. The research results has shown that the hyperparameter optimization and hyperparamter optimized ANNs can be utilized as an efficient mechanism for increasing the estimation accuracy for this problem. It is observed that the developed hyperparameter tool (HyperNetExplorer) that is utilizing the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMAES), Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Jaya Algorithm (JA) optimization techniques can be successfully used for the discovery of hyperparameter optimized ANNs, which can accomplish soil classification with 100% accuracy.