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NeuroEvolution (NE) methods are known for applying Evolutionary Computation to the optimisation of Artificial Neural Networks(ANNs). Despite aiding non-expert users to design and train ANNs, the vast majority of NE approaches disregard the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Filipe Assunção , Nuno Lourenço , Bernardete Ribeiro , Penousal Machado

Autonomous driving vehicles have been of keen interest ever since automation of various tasks started. Humans are prone to exhaustion and have a slow response time on the road, and on top of that driving is already quite a dangerous task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Arhum Ishtiaq , Maheen Anees , Sara Mahmood , Neha Jafry

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) represent a promising approach in machine learning, combining the hierarchical learning capabilities of deep neural networks with the energy efficiency of spike-based computations. Traditional end-to-end…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ruyin Wan , Qian Zhang , George Em Karniadakis

For artificial general intelligence (AGI) it would be efficient if multiple users trained the same giant neural network, permitting parameter reuse, without catastrophic forgetting. PathNet is a first step in this direction. It is a neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Chrisantha Fernando , Dylan Banarse , Charles Blundell , Yori Zwols , David Ha , Andrei A. Rusu , Alexander Pritzel , Daan Wierstra

Soft robots can exhibit better performance in specific tasks compared to conventional robots, particularly in healthcare-related tasks. However, the field of soft robotics is still young, and designing them often involves mimicking natural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hugo Alcaraz-Herrera , Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas , Andrew Adamatzky , Igor Balaz

This paper surveys research on applying neuroevolution (NE) to games. In neuroevolution, artificial neural networks are trained through evolutionary algorithms, taking inspiration from the way biological brains evolved. We analyse the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Sebastian Risi , Julian Togelius

We present HoHoNet, a versatile and efficient framework for holistic understanding of an indoor 360-degree panorama using a Latent Horizontal Feature (LHFeat). The compact LHFeat flattens the features along the vertical direction and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Cheng Sun , Min Sun , Hwann-Tzong Chen

We present a novel approach to neural response prediction that incorporates higher-order operations directly within convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our model extends traditional 3D CNNs by embedding higher-order operations within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Simone Azeglio , Victor Calbiague Garcia , Guilhem Glaziou , Peter Neri , Olivier Marre , Ulisse Ferrari

Most of the existing disease prediction methods in the field of medical image processing fall into two classes, namely image-to-category predictions and image-to-parameter predictions. Few works have focused on image-to-image predictions.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Yuhan Zhang , Kun Huang , Mingchao Li , Songtao Yuan , Qiang Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently caught great attention and achieved significant progress in graph-level applications. In this paper, we propose a framework for graph neural networks with multiresolution Haar-like wavelets, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Xuebin Zheng , Bingxin Zhou , Ming Li , Yu Guang Wang , Junbin Gao

Recent advances in neural rendering have enabled highly photorealistic 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. Despite this progress, current state-of-the-art methods struggle to reconstruct high frequency detail, due to factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Sibi Catley-Chandar , Richard Shaw , Gregory Slabaugh , Eduardo Perez-Pellitero

Autoregressive neural PDE surrogates predict future states by repeatedly applying a learned one-step operator. This is a simple and widely used method, but small one-step errors can accumulate during long rollouts. The resulting drift often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jiayi Li , Penghao Jiang , Hira Saleem , Zhaonan Wang , Piotr Koniusz , Flora D. Salim

This paper investigates the application of Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) to automate gameplay in Dark Souls, a notoriously challenging action role-playing game characterized by complex combat mechanics, dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jim O'Connor , Gary B. Parker , Mustafa Bugti

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision; however, training DNNs for satisfactory performance remains challenging and suffers from sensitivity to empirical selections of an optimization algorithm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Lei Gao , Bing Wei , Xuesong Tang

Game-like programs have become increasingly popular in many software engineering domains such as mobile apps, web applications, or programming education. However, creating tests for programs that have the purpose of challenging human…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Patric Feldmeier , Gordon Fraser

In this study, we applied the NEAT (NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies) algorithm to stock trading using multiple technical indicators. Our approach focused on maximizing earning, avoiding risk, and outperforming the Buy & Hold…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Li-Chun Huang

The success of deep learning depends on finding an architecture to fit the task. As deep learning has scaled up to more challenging tasks, the architectures have become difficult to design by hand. This paper proposes an automated method,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Risto Miikkulainen , Jason Liang , Elliot Meyerson , Aditya Rawal , Dan Fink , Olivier Francon , Bala Raju , Hormoz Shahrzad , Arshak Navruzyan , Nigel Duffy , Babak Hodjat

Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), driven by Neural Networks (NN), demand innovative neural architecture designs, particularly within the constrained environments of Internet of Things (IoT) systems, to balance performance…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Halima Bouzidi , Smail Niar , Hamza Ouarnoughi , El-Ghazali Talbi

Deep artificial neural networks (DNNs) are typically trained via gradient-based learning algorithms, namely backpropagation. Evolution strategies (ES) can rival backprop-based algorithms such as Q-learning and policy gradients on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Felipe Petroski Such , Vashisht Madhavan , Edoardo Conti , Joel Lehman , Kenneth O. Stanley , Jeff Clune

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved remarkable progress in neural rendering. Extracting geometry from NeRF typically relies on the Marching Cubes algorithm, which uses a hand-crafted threshold to define the level set. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yi Gu , Zhaorui Wang , Dongjun Ye , Renjing Xu