Package: metANN Title: Metaheuristic and Gradient-Based Optimization for Neural Network Training and Continuous Problems Version: 0.1.0 Authors@R: c( person(given = "Burak", family = "Dilber", email = "burakdilber91@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph")), person(given = "A. Fırat", family = "Özdemir", role = c("aut", "ths")) ) Description: Provides tools for general-purpose continuous optimization and feed-forward artificial neural network training using metaheuristic and gradient-based optimization algorithms. The package supports benchmark function optimization, regression, binary classification, and multi-class classification with multilayer perceptrons. The package implements several optimization methods, including particle swarm optimization Kennedy and Eberhart (1995) , differential evolution Storn and Price (1997) , grey wolf optimizer Mirjalili et al. (2014) , secretary bird optimization Fu et al. (2024) , and Adam Kingma and Ba (2015) . License: MIT + file LICENSE Encoding: UTF-8 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE) RoxygenNote: 7.3.3 URL: https://github.com/burakdilber/metANN BugReports: https://github.com/burakdilber/metANN/issues Repository: https://burakdilber.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-05-11 19:24:34 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/burakdilber/metann RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 9fa689ff6ec12805ee5c24951e8b1bfed6030a4a NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-10-13 08:55:15 UTC; root Author: Burak Dilber [aut, cre, cph], A. Fırat Özdemir [aut, ths] Maintainer: Burak Dilber