Aditya Rawal
Ph.D. Alumni
My primary research interests include biologically inspired Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. Inspired by complex socio-biological structures in nature, I am applying simultaneous cooperation and competition in artificial predator-prey teams. At NNRG, we have developed a new Neuro-evolution architecture called Multi-Component ESP to sustain co-evolutionary arms race in such predator-prey teams. Recently, our focus is to establish communication and construct language in artificial teams. This has applications in building better video-game bots, robotic teams as well as in the understanding of natural evolution of language. My other research interest include Computational Modeling of human brain.
Homepage:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~aditya
Publications
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Evolving Deep Neural Networks 2023
Risto Miikkulainen, Jason Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Aditya Rawal, Dan Fink, Olivier Francon, Bala Raju, Hormoz Shahrzad, Arshak Navruzyan, Nigel Duffy, Babak Hodjat, To Appear In Artificial Intelligence in the Age of Neural Networks and Brain Computing (second edition), R. Kozma, C. Alippi, Y. Choe, and F. Morabito (Eds.), New York, 2023. Elsevier.
From Nodes to Networks: Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks 2020
Aditya Rawal, Risto Miikkulainen, In Deep Neural Evolution: Deep Learning with Evolutionary Computation, H. Iba and N. Noman (Eds.), pp. 233-251 2020. Springer. (also arxiv:1803.04439).
Evolving Deep Neural Networks 2019
Risto Miikkulainen, Jason Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Aditya Rawal, Dan Fink, Olivier Francon, Bala Raju, Hormoz Shahrzad, Arshak Navruzyan, Nigel Duffy, and Babak Hodjat, In Artificial Intelligence in the Age of Neural Networks and Brain Computing, Robert Kozma, Cesare Alippi, Yoonsuck Choe, and Francesco Carlo Morabito (Eds.), pp. 293-312 2019. Amsterdam: Elsev...
Discovering Gated Recurrent Neural Network Architectures 2018
Aditya Rawal, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin.
Evolving Deep LSTM-based Memory networks using an Information Maximization Objective 2016
Aditya Rawal and Risto Miikkulainen, To Appear In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016), Colorado, USA 2016.
Evolution of Communication in Mate Selection 2014
Aditya Rawal, Janette Boughman and Risto Miikkulainen, To Appear In Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 14) , New York, USA, July, 2014 2014.
General Intelligence through Prolonged Evolution of Densely Connected Neural Networks 2014
Padmini Rajagopalan, Aditya Rawal, Kay E. Holekamp and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2014.
Using Both Latent and Supervised Shared Topics for Multitask Learning 2013
Ayan Acharya, Aditya Rawal, Raymond J. Mooney, Eduardo R. Hruschka, In Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD), pp. 369--384, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2013.
Using Both Latent and Supervised Shared Topics for Multitask Learning 2013
Ayan Acharya, Aditya Rawal, Raymond J. Mooney, Eduardo R. Hruschka, In European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD), pp. 369--384, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2013.
Evolution of a Communication Code in Cooperative Tasks 2012
Aditya Rawal, Padmini Rajagopalan, Risto Miikkulainen and Kay Holekamp, In Artificial Life (13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems), East Lansing, Michigan, USA 2012.
Multiagent Learning through Neuroevolution 2012
Risto Miikkulainen, Eliana Feasley, Leif Johnson, Igor Karpov, Padmini Rajagopalan, Aditya Rawal, and Wesley Tansey, In Advances in Computational Intelligence, J. Liu et al. (Eds.), Vol. LNCS 7311, pp. 24-46, Berlin, Heidelberg: 2012. Springer.
The Role of Reward Structure, Coordination Mechanism and Net Return in the Evolution of Cooperation 2011
Padmini Rajagopalan, Aditya Rawal, Risto Miikkulainen, Marc A. Wiseman and Kay E. Holekamp, In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2011), Seoul, South Korea 2011.
Constructing Competitive and Cooperative Agent Behavior Using Coevolution 2010
Aditya Rawal, Padmini Rajagopalan and Risto Miikkulainen, In IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2010), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2010.
Projects
The Role of Emotion and Communication in Cooperative Behavior 2013 - 2016
Learning Strategic Behavior in Sequential Decision Tasks 2009 - 2014
Coevolution of Competitive and Cooperative Agent Behavior 2009 - Present
Areas of Interest
Artificial Life
Demos
Evolving Deep LSTMAditya Rawal2015
Cooperation to Overcome a More Powerful AdversaryKay Holekamp2012
The Role of Reward Structure, Coordination Mechanism and Net Return in the Evolution of CooperationPadmini Rajagopalan, Aditya Rawal2011
Emergence of Competitive and Cooperative Behavior and Arms Race Through CoevolutionAditya Rawal, Padmini Rajagopalan2010
Labs
Formerly affiliated with Neural Networks