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This paper presents a new algorithm, Evolutionary eXploration of Augmenting Memory Models (EXAMM), which is capable of evolving recurrent neural networks (RNNs) using a wide variety of memory structures, such as Delta-RNN, GRU, LSTM, MGU…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Alexander Ororbia , Ahmed Ahmed Elsaid , Travis Desell

According to cognitive psychology and related disciplines, the development of complex problem-solving behaviour in biological agents depends on hierarchical cognitive mechanisms. Hierarchical reinforcement learning is a promising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Manfred Eppe , Christian Gumbsch , Matthias Kerzel , Phuong D. H. Nguyen , Martin V. Butz , Stefan Wermter

Deep neural networks (DNNs) transform stimuli across multiple processing stages to produce representations that can be used to solve complex tasks, such as object recognition in images. However, a full understanding of how they achieve this…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-01 David G. T. Barrett , Ari S. Morcos , Jakob H. Macke

It has been shown that uniform as well as non-uniform cellular automata (CA) can be evolved to perform certain computational tasks. Random Boolean networks are a generalization of two-state cellular automata, where the interconnection…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Bertrand Mesot , Christof Teuscher

This paper describes a method that automatically searches Artificial Neural Networks using Cellular Genetic Algorithms. The main difference of this method for a common genetic algorithm is the use of a cellular automaton capable of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Anderson P. da Silva , Teresa B. Ludermir , Leandro M. Almeida

Deep Reinforcement Learning has demonstrated the potential of neural networks tuned with gradient descent for solving complex tasks in well-delimited environments. However, these neural systems are slow learners producing specialized agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Mathieu Chalvidal , Thomas Serre , Rufin VanRullen

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) exhibit a narrow scope of expertise on stationary independent data. However, the data in the real world is continuous and dynamic, and ANNs must adapt to novel scenarios while also retaining the learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Shruthi Gowda , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Deep learning algorithms have been known to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations in various tasks such as image classification. This problem was addressed by employing several defense methods for detection and rejection of particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani

Recent work introduced progressive network growing as a promising way to ease the training for large GANs, but the model design and architecture-growing strategy still remain under-explored and needs manual design for different image data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Lanlan Liu , Yuting Zhang , Jia Deng , Stefano Soatto

To solve more complex things, computer systems becomes more and more complex. It becomes harder to be handled manually for various conditions and unknown new conditions in advance. This situation urgently requires the development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Gang Wang

We study the problem of generating arbitrarily large environments to improve the throughput of multi-robot systems. Prior work proposes Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms as an effective method for optimizing the environments of automated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yulun Zhang , Matthew C. Fontaine , Varun Bhatt , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Jiaoyang Li

An effective way to achieve intelligence is to simulate various intelligent behaviors in the human brain. In recent years, bio-inspired learning methods have emerged, and they are different from the classical mathematical programming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Jieneng Chen , Jingye Chen , Ruiming Zhang , Xiaobin Hu

The expanding cellular automata (XCA) variant of cellular automata is investigated and characterized from a complexity-theoretical standpoint. An XCA is a one-dimensional cellular automaton which can dynamically create new cells between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Augusto Modanese

This work explores hypernetworks: an approach of using a one network, also known as a hypernetwork, to generate the weights for another network. Hypernetworks provide an abstraction that is similar to what is found in nature: the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-02 David Ha , Andrew Dai , Quoc V. Le

We show that neural networks trained by evolutionary reinforcement learning can enact efficient molecular self-assembly protocols. Presented with molecular simulation trajectories, networks learn to change temperature and chemical potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-01 Stephen Whitelam , Isaac Tamblyn

Cellular automata (CAs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are closely related due to the local nature of information processing. The connection between these topics is beneficial to both related fields, for conceptual as well as…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-09-05 Michiel Rollier , Aisling J. Daly , Odemir M. Bruno , Jan M. Baetens

This works proposes a methodology to searching for automatically Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) by using Cellular Genetic Algorithm (CGA). The goal of this methodology is to find compact networks whit good performance for classification…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Anderson da Silva , Teresa Ludermir

An object-oriented approach to implementing artificial neural networks is introduced in this article. The networks obtained in this way are highly connected in that they admit edges between nodes in any layers of the network, and dynamic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Clint van Alten

Self-replication is a key aspect of biological life that has been largely overlooked in Artificial Intelligence systems. Here we describe how to build and train self-replicating neural networks. The network replicates itself by learning to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Oscar Chang , Hod Lipson

The issue of data-driven neural network model construction is one of the core problems in the domain of Artificial Intelligence. A standard approach assumes a fixed architecture with trainable weights. A conceptually more advanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Szymon Świderski , Agnieszka Jastrzębska