Efficient reinforcement learning through Evolutionary Acquisition of Neural Topologies

ESANN 2005 Proceedings - 13th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 259-266

  Kassahun, Yohannes ^a   Sommer, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL TASK; EVOLUTIONARY ACQUISITION; GENETIC ENCODING; LEARNING TASKS; NEURAL STRUCTURES;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84887011679     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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