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On a multilevel Levenberg–Marquardt method for the training of artificial neural networks and its application to the solution of partial differential equations

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In this paper, we propose a new multilevel Levenberg–Marquardt optimizer for the training of artificial neural networks with quadratic loss function. This setting allows us to get further insight into the potential of multilevel optimization methods. Indeed, when the least squares problem arises from the training of artificial neural networks,the variables subject to optimization are not related by any geometrical constraints and the standard interpolation and restriction operators cannot be employed any longer. A heuristic, inspired by algebraic multigrid methods, is then proposed to construct the multilevel transfer operators. We test the new optimizer on an important application: the approximate solution of partial differential equations by means of artificial neural networks. The learning problem is formulated as a least squares problem, choosing the nonlinear residual of the equation as a loss function, whereas the multilevel method is employed as a training method. Numerical experiments show encouraging results related to the efficiency of the new multilevel optimization method compared to the corresponding one-level procedure in this context.
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hal-02956018 , version 1 (02-10-2020)

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Henri Calandra, Serge Gratton, Elisa Riccietti, Xavier Vasseur. On a multilevel Levenberg–Marquardt method for the training of artificial neural networks and its application to the solution of partial differential equations. Optimization Methods and Software, 2020, pp.1-26. ⟨10.1080/10556788.2020.1775828⟩. ⟨hal-02956018⟩
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