Investigating whether HyperNEAT produces modular neural networks

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 635-642

  Clune, Jeff ^a   Beckmann, Benjamin E ^a   McKinley, Philip K ^a   Ofria, Charles ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Developmental encodings; Generative encodings; HyperNEAT; Indirect encodings; Modularity; NEAT; Neuroevolution

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ENCODINGS; HYPERNEAT; MODULARITY; NEAT; NEUROEVO-LUTION;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77955908519     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1830483.1830598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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