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Game Theory (GT) has been used with significant success to formulate, and either design or optimize, the operation of many representative communications and networking scenarios. The games in these scenarios involve, as usual, diverse…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Jose Moura , David Hutchison

Game-theoretic models are effective tools for modeling multi-agent interactions, especially when robots need to coordinate with humans. However, applying these models requires inferring their specifications from observed behaviors -- a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Max Muchen Sun , Pete Trautman , Todd Murphey

This paper focuses on procedurally generating rules and communicating them to players to adjust the difficulty. This is part of a larger project to collect and adapt games in educational games for young children using a digital puzzle game…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Thomas Volden , Djordje Grbic , Paolo Burelli

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

Hardware-Software Co-Design is a highly successful strategy for improving performance of domain-specific computing systems. We argue for the application of the same methodology to deep learning; specifically, we propose to extend neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Andrew Anderson , Jing Su , Rozenn Dahyot , David Gregg

Neuroevolution is a powerful method of applying an evolutionary algorithm to refine the performance of artificial neural networks through natural selection; however, the fitness evaluation of these networks can be time-consuming and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Derek Whitley

Researchers constantly strive to explore larger and more complex search spaces in various scientific studies and physical experiments. However, such investigations often involve sophisticated simulators or time-consuming experiments that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shikhar Tuli , Niraj K. Jha

Recently, neural architecture search (NAS) has been applied to automate the design of neural networks in real-world applications. A large number of algorithms have been developed to improve the search cost or the performance of the final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Yao Shu , Yizhou Chen , Zhongxiang Dai , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

The structure and performance of neural networks are intimately connected, and by use of evolutionary algorithms, neural network structures optimally adapted to a given task can be explored. Guiding such neuroevolution with additional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Kai Olav Ellefsen , Joost Huizinga , Jim Torresen

Novelty search (NS) refers to a class of exploration algorithms that seek to uncover diverse system behaviors through simulations or experiments. Such diversity is central to many AI-driven discovery and design tasks, including material and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-31 Wei-Ting Tang , Ankush Chakrabarty , Joel A. Paulson

We propose a novel approach for the challenge of designing less complex yet highly effective convolutional neural networks (CNNs) through the use of cartesian genetic programming (CGP) for neural architecture search (NAS). Our approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Cosijopii Garcia-Garcia , Alicia Morales-Reyes , Hugo Jair Escalante

Evolutionary neural architecture search (ENAS) employs evolutionary algorithms to find high-performing neural architectures automatically, and has achieved great success. However, compared to the empirical success, its rigorous theoretical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zeqiong Lv , Chao Qian , Yanan Sun

A classic model to study strategic decision making in multi-agent systems is the normal-form game. This model can be generalised to allow for an infinite number of pure strategies leading to continuous games. Multi-objective normal-form…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Willem Röpke , Carla Groenland , Roxana Rădulescu , Ann Nowé , Diederik M. Roijers

The rapid proliferation of computing domains relying on Internet of Things (IoT) devices has created a pressing need for efficient and accurate deep-learning (DL) models that can run on low-power devices. However, traditional DL models tend…

In this paper, we describe application of Neuroevolution to a P2P lending problem in which a credit evaluation model is updated based on streaming data. We apply the algorithm Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) which has not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yue Liu , Adam Ghandar , Georgios Theodoropoulos

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful paradigm that enables researchers to automatically explore vast search spaces and discover efficient neural networks. However, NAS suffers from a critical bottleneck, i.e. the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yu Xue , Pengcheng Jiang , Chenchen Zhu , MengChu Zhou , Mohamed Wahib , Moncef Gabbouj

To enable emerging applications such as deep machine learning and graph processing, 3D network-on-chip (NoC) enabled heterogeneous manycore platforms that can integrate many processing elements (PEs) are needed. However, designing such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sirui Qi , Yingheng Li , Sudeep Pasricha , Ryan Gary Kim

Neural networks and evolutionary computation have a rich intertwined history. They most commonly appear together when an evolutionary algorithm optimises the parameters and topology of a neural network for reinforcement learning problems,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Alexander W. Churchill , Siddharth Sigtia , Chrisantha Fernando

Background: The field of software testing is growing and rapidly-evolving. Aims: Based on keywords assigned to publications, we seek to identify predominant research topics and understand how they are connected and have evolved. Method: We…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Alireza Salahirad , Gregory Gay , Ehsan Mohammadi

Understanding the search dynamics of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) is still an open problem. This paper extends a recent network-based tool, search trajectory networks (STNs), to model the behavior of MOEAs. Our approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yuri Lavinas , Claus Aranha , Gabriela Ochoa