title: Increasing the number of epochs to reach the performance goal while training neural network
body: <p>I am training the neural network with input vector of 85*650 and target vector of 26*650. Here is the list of parameters that I have used</p>
  
  <pre><code>     net.trainParam.max_fail = 6;
       net.trainParam.min_grad=1e-5;
       net.trainParam.show=10;
       net.trainParam.lr=0.9;
       net.trainParam.epochs=13500;
       net.trainParam.goal=0.001;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Number of hidden nodes=76</p>
  
  <p>As you can see ,I have set the number of epochs to 13500. Is it OK to set the number of epochs to such a large number?. Performance goal is not reaching if the number of epochs is decreased and I am getting a bad classification while testing.</p>