Automatic feature selection in neuroevolution

GECCO 2005 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1225-1232

  Whiteson, Shimon ^a   Stone, Peter ^a   Stanley, Kenneth O ^a   Miikkulainen, Risto ^a   Kohl, Nate ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Genetic algorithms; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

FEATURE SELECTION; META-LEARNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TOPOLOGY;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 32444438066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1068009.1068210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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