Deciding batch size and epoch value in International Trade prediction data sample (1 million datapoints)

I am predicting trade flow values based on 6 variables of the gravity model of trade (2 of which are boolean valued) and have normalized my data for the continuous variables. I have split the data into 70% training and 30% testing sets.

I have flow data of different nations from 1986-2014 and would like to make an ANN with RELU activation functions.I need help in deciding:


The activation function - saw someone use the RELU, is that appropriate? Google …

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