Evolving Neural Networks through Augmenting Topologies

Authors: Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen Source: http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/stanley.ec02.pdf

Problems Addressed

Competing conventions.

Key Ideas

Track genes with history markers to allow crossover among topologies.

Apply speciation to preserve innovations.

Develop topologies incrementally from simple initial structures.

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