Zhiwei Ye1,2,3, Dingfeng Song1, Haitao Xie1,2,3,*, Jixin Zhang1,2, Wen Zhou1,2, Mengya Lei1,2, Xiao Zheng1,2, Jie Sun1, Jing Zhou1, Mengxuan Li1
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.85, No.3, pp. 5509-5530, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.067342
- 23 October 2025
Abstract The Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) is a fundamental neural network model widely applied in various domains, particularly for lightweight image classification, speech recognition, and natural language processing tasks. Despite its widespread success, training MLPs often encounter significant challenges, including susceptibility to local optima, slow convergence rates, and high sensitivity to initial weight configurations. To address these issues, this paper proposes a Latin Hypercube Opposition-based Elite Variation Artificial Protozoa Optimizer (LOEV-APO), which enhances both global exploration and local exploitation simultaneously. LOEV-APO introduces a hybrid initialization strategy that combines Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) with Opposition-Based Learning (OBL), thus… More >