Intel Advisor, one of a number of powerful tools that are part of Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018, can help identify portions of code that could be good candidates for parallelization and vectorization.

Particle swarm optimization isn't usually seen as the first-choice technique for training a neural network but, as James McCaffrey demonstrates, it's a useful alternative. Particle swarm optimization ...

Simplex optimization is one of the simplest algorithms available to train a neural network. Understanding how simplex optimization works, and how it compares to the more commonly used back-propagation ...