How to train and tune an artificial multilayer perceptron neural network using Keras?
<p>I am building my first artificial multilayer perceptron neural network using Keras.</p>

<p>This is my input data:</p>

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<p>This is my code which I used to build my initial model which basically follows the Keras example code:</p>

<pre><code>model = Sequential()
model.add(Dense(64, input_dim=14, init='uniform'))
model.add(Activation('tanh'))
model.add(Dropout(0.5))
model.add(Dense(64, init='uniform'))
model.add(Activation('tanh'))
model.add(Dropout(0.5))
model.add(Dense(2, init='uniform'))
model.add(Activation('softmax'))

sgd = SGD(lr=0.1, decay=1e-6, momentum=0.9, nesterov=True)
model.compile(loss='mean_squared_error', optimizer=sgd)
model.fit(X_train, y_train, nb_epoch=20, batch_size=16)
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<p>Output:</p>

<pre><code>Epoch 1/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1760     
Epoch 2/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1840     
Epoch 3/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1816     
Epoch 4/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1915     
Epoch 5/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1928     
Epoch 6/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1964     
Epoch 7/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1948     
Epoch 8/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1971     
Epoch 9/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1899     
Epoch 10/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1957     
Epoch 11/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1923     
Epoch 12/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1910     
Epoch 13/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.2104     
Epoch 14/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1976     
Epoch 15/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1979     
Epoch 16/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.2036     
Epoch 17/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.2019     
Epoch 18/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1978     
Epoch 19/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1954     
Epoch 20/20
1213/1213 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1949
</code></pre>

<p>How do I train and tune this model and get my code to output my best predictive model? I am new to neural networks and am just wholly confused as to what is the next step after building the model. I know I want to optimize it, but I'm not sure which features to tweak or if I am supposed to do it manually or how to write code to do so.</p>