A previous commenter asked about the published research you mentioned in which 
this was working ok. If you’re using the same data as them, could you try to 
replicate their results first?

Best wishes
Andrew

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> On 31 May 2016, at 20:05, muhammad waseem <m.waseem.ah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I try to balance it out, the dataset is very periodic type (similar behaviour 
> in an year)
> 
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Andrew Holmes <andrewholme...@icloud.com 
> <mailto:andrewholme...@icloud.com>> wrote:
> Is the training set unbalanced between high and low values? Ie, many more of 
> the high ones?
> 
> Best wishes
> Andrew
> 
> @andrewholmes82 <http://twitter.com/andrewholmes82>
> 
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>> On 31 May 2016, at 20:00, muhammad waseem <m.waseem.ah...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:m.waseem.ah...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, it has poor performance (higher errors) on lower values. 
>> I have tried random forest but as I mentioned it did not give good results 
>> either, I can try SVR.
>> 
>> Kindest Regards
>> Waseem
>> 
>> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Andrew Holmes <andrewholme...@icloud.com 
>> <mailto:andrewholme...@icloud.com>> wrote:
>> When you say it’s not learning ‘lower values’, does that mean the model has 
>> good predictions on high values in the test set, but poor performance on the 
>> low ones?
>> 
>> Have you tried simpler models like tree, random forest and svm as a 
>> benchmark?
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> Andrew
>> 
>> @andrewholmes82 <http://twitter.com/andrewholmes82>
>> 
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>>> On 31 May 2016, at 16:59, Andrew Holmes <andrewholme...@icloud.com 
>>> <mailto:andrewholme...@icloud.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If the problem is that it’s confusing day and night, are you including time 
>>> of day as a parameter?
>>> 
>>> Best wishes
>>> Andrew
>>> 
>>> @andrewholmes82 <http://twitter.com/andrewholmes82>
>>> 
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>>>> On 31 May 2016, at 16:55, muhammad waseem <m.waseem.ah...@gmail.com 
>>>> <mailto:m.waseem.ah...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> I am trying to train an ANN but until now it is not learning the lower 
>>>> values of the training sample. I have tried using different python 
>>>> libraries to train ANN. The aim is to predict solar radiation from other 
>>>> weather parameters (regression problem). I think the ANN is confusing 
>>>> lower values (winter/cloudy days) with the night-time values (probably). I 
>>>> have tried the following but none of them worked;
>>>> 
>>>>  1. Scaling data between different values e.g. [0,1],[-1,1]
>>>>  2. Standardising data to have zero mean and unit variance
>>>>  3. Shuffling the data
>>>>  4. Increasing the training samples (from 3 years to 10 years)
>>>>  5. Using different train functions
>>>>  6. Trying different transfer functions
>>>>  7. Using few input variables
>>>>  8. Varying hidden layers and hidden layers' neurons
>>>> 
>>>> Any idea what could be wrong or any directions to try?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Kindest Regards
>>>> Waseem
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