neat (wip)

Explorations into NEAT and some of its derivative research

install

In project root, run

$ sh install.sh

quick test

$ uv run train_lunar.py

citations

@article{Stanley2011CompetitiveCT,
    title   = {Competitive Coevolution through Evolutionary Complexification},
    author  = {Kenneth O. Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen},
    journal = {ArXiv},
    year    = {2011},
    volume  = {abs/1107.0037},
    url     = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:11881625}
}

@inproceedings{4665912,
    author  = {Miguel, Cesar Gomes and Silva, Carolina Feher da and Netto, Marcio Lobo},
    booktitle = {2008 10th Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks},
    title   = {Structural and Parametric Evolution of Continuous-Time Recurrent Neural Networks},
    year    = {2008},
    doi     = {10.1109/SBRN.2008.12}
}

@article{Khamesian2021HybridSN,
    title   = {Hybrid self-attention NEAT: a novel evolutionary self-attention approach to improve the NEAT algorithm in high dimensional inputs},
    author  = {Saman Khamesian and Hamed Malek},
    journal = {Evolving Systems},
    year    = {2021},
    pages   = {1-15},
    url     = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:244920723}
}

@article{Hornby2006AutomatedAD,
    title   = {Automated Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms},
    author  = {Gregory Hornby and Al Globus and Derek S. Linden and Jason D. Lohn},
    journal = {Space},
    year    = {2006},
    url     = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:8290212}
}

@inproceedings{schrum:gecco14,
    title   = {Evolving Multimodal Behavior With Modular Neural Networks in Ms. Pac-Man},
    author  = {Jacob Schrum and Risto Miikkulainen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014)},
    month   = {July},
    address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
    pages   = {325--332},
    note    = {Best Paper: Digital Entertainment and Arts},
    url     = {http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab?schrum:gecco2014},
    year    = {2014}

@article{stanley:ec02,
    title   = {Evolving Neural Networks Through Augmenting Topologies},
    author  = {Kenneth O. Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen},
    volume  = {10},
    journal = {Evolutionary Computation},
    number  = {2},
    pages   = {99-127},
    url     = "http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/?stanley:ec02",
    year    = {2002}
}

@misc{doerr2017fastgeneticalgorithms,
    title   = {Fast Genetic Algorithms},
    author  = {Benjamin Doerr and Huu Phuoc Le and Régis Makhmara and Ta Duy Nguyen},
    year    = {2017},
    eprint  = {1703.03334},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    primaryClass = {cs.NE},
    url     = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03334},
}

@misc{legg2004tournamentversusfitnessuniform,
    title   = {Tournament versus Fitness Uniform Selection},
    author  = {Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter and Akshat Kumar},
    year    = {2004},
    eprint  = {cs/0403038},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    primaryClass = {cs.LG},
    url     = {https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0403038},
}

@article{hiraga2024improving,
    title   = {Improving the performance of mutation-based evolving artificial neural networks with self-adaptive mutations},
    author  = {Hiraga, Motoaki and Komura, Masahiro and Miyamoto, Akiharu and Morimoto, Daichi and Ohkura, Kazuhiro},
    journal = {PLOS ONE},
    volume  = {19},
    number  = {7},
    pages   = {e0307084},
    year    = {2024},
    publisher = {Public Library of Science},
    doi     = {10.1371/journal.pone.0307084},
    url     ={https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307084}
}