Research Article

Modeling and Optimization of Electrodeposition Process for Copper Nanoparticle Synthesis Using ANN and Nature-Inspired Algorithms

Table 5

Performance of NN with different topologies and transfer functions.

Performance measures/training algorithmTrainlm with linear output neurons (fitnet)Trainbr with linear output neurons (fitnet)Trainscg with linear output neurons (fitnet)Trainlm with softmax output neurons (patternnet)Trainbr with linear output neurons (patternnet)Trainscg with linear output neurons (patternnet)

Mean square error (MSE)3.73952e–19.08727e–15.24238e–12.5244e–306.25453e–191.21640e–1
Root mean square error (RMSE)0.6115160.9532720.7240431.49E–157.91E–100.348769
Mean absolute error (MAE)0.117980.127650.137560.0092e–30.00256e–50.14874
R-square0.920860.910460.910380.999940.989840.87564
Variance accounted for (VAF)0.92150.91200.91320.98150.97520.8256