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. | | Evolutionary Neural Networks | | |
. | 05/06/2010 | Erin J. Hastings, Ratan Guha, and
Kenneth O. Stanley (2009). "Evolving Content in the Galactic Arms Race Video Game". Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games(CIG'09). | Jacob: The latest cool variation of NEAT in a videogame | http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/papers/hastings_cig09.pdf |
. | 11/03/2010 | Linhardt,.M.J., Butz, M.V. (2009). "NEAT in Increasingly Non-Linear Control Situations"In GECCO-2009: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. ACM Press. | Julian: Stress-testing NEAT to see what kind of domains it fails in | http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1570256.1570282 |
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. | | Robotics and RL | | |
. | 02/25/2010 | Rogier Koppejan, Shimon Whiteson. (2009). "Neuroevolutionary Reinforcement Learning for Generalized Helicopter Control". In GECCO-2009: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. ACM Press. | Julian: This neuroevolution approach won first place in 2008 RL Competition | http://staff.science.uva.nl/~whiteson/pubs/b2hd-koppejangecco09.html |
. | 09/08/2010 | Butz, M.V., Herbort, O. (2008). "Context-Dependent Predictions and Cognitive Arm Control with XCSF"In GECCO-2008: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. ACM Press. | Julian: XCSF for robot arm control. Won best paper. | http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1389360 |
. | 09/08/2010 | Butz, M., Pedersen, G.K.M., Stalph, P.O., (2009). "Learning Sensorimotor Control Structures with XCSF". In GECCO-2009: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. ACM Press. | Julian: Continuing work from above paper. Won best paper again. | http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1570059 |
. | 02/22/2011 | Lucas, S.M. (2010). "Estimating Learning Rates in Evolution and TDL: Results on a Simple Grid-World Problem.". IEEE CIG 2010. | Igor: TD RL learns faster than evolutionary algorithms and has a higher upper bound... So why should we use EAs? | http://game.itu.dk/cig2010/proceedings/papers/cig10_046_100.pdf |
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. | | Genetic Algorithms | | |
. | 10/20/2010 | Galan, S. F., Mengshoel, O. J. (2010). "Generalized crowding for genetic algorithms"In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (Portland, Oregon, USA, July 07 - 11, 2010). GECCO '10. ACM, New York, NY, 775-782. | Julian: A unified framework for diversity maintenance in GA's. Saw this presented at GECCO and thought it was good with broad applicability in EAs | http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1830620&type=pdf&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=100502445&CFTOKEN=85677163 |
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. | | Genetic Programming | | |
. | 3/18/2011 | Azad, R. A., Ryan, C. (2010). "Abstract functions and lifetime learning in genetic programming for symbolic regression". In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (Portland, Oregon, USA, July 07 - 11, 2010). GECCO '10. ACM, New York, NY, 893-900. | Julian: combines learning with evolution. Got a best paper nomination. | http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1830645&type=pdf&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=103134633&CFTOKEN=60254585 |
. | 3/1/2011 | Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang. (2009). "Pareto front feature selection: using genetic programming to explore feature space". In GECCO-2009: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. ACM Press. | Julian: Using GP to explore the space of features useful in a classification task | http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1570040 |
. | 11/24/2009 | Genetic Programming: An Introduction and Tutorial, with a Survey of techniques and Applications, William B. Langdon and Riccardo Poli and Nicholas F. McPhee and John R. Koza, in Computational Intelligence: A Compendium, John Fulcher and Lakhmi C. Jain (editors), Chapter 22, pages 927-1028. | Julian: Good recent GP intro/tutorial by all the right people. It's a book chapter so too long to read "on the day" :) | http://www.essex.ac.uk/csee/research/publications/technicalreports/2007/ces475.pdf |
. | 09/22/2010 | Harding, S., Miller, J. F., and Banzhaf, W. (2010). "Developments in Cartesian Genetic Programming: self-modifying CGP", Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 11, 3-4 (Sep. 2010), 397-439. | Julian: latest most powerful version of CGP also evolves algorithms | http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.evolutioninmaterio.com%2Fpreprints%2Fsmcgpjournal.pdf&rct=j&q=developments%20in%20cartesian%20genetic%20programming&ei=P7yBTO36LcXunQfBnd3GAQ&usg=AFQjCNGaUkkOY4hZB-owKoGS2I3RATEkfw&sig2=bkiGYz71NWpLKB0mAW53IQ&cad=rja |
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. | | Genetic Based Machine Learning | | |
. | 10/20/2009 | Sigaud, O. and Wilson, S.W. (2007). "Learning classifier systems: A survey", Soft Computing, vol. 11, no. 11, September, 2007, pp. 1065-1078 | Julian: nice LCS survey | http://www.eskimo.com/~wilson/ps/lcs-survey2007.pdf |
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. | | Coevolution | | |
. | 04/22/2010 | Min Shi. (2008). "An Empirical Comparison of Evolution and Coevolution for Designing Artificial Neural Network Game Players", In GECCO-2008: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. ACM Press. | Julian: compares NE, NEAT, ESP, SANE and more. Won best paper. | http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1389164 |
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. | | Evolutionary Strategies / Evolutionary Programming | | |
. | 11/24/2010 | Bäck, T.; Hoffmeister, F.; and Schwefel, H.-P. 1991. A survey of evolution strategies. ICGA 2–9. | Jacob: Good introduction to ES | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~schrum2/temp/ES.pdf |
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. | | Generative and Developmental Systems | | |
. | 4/19/2011 | Ferreira, C. (2001). "Gene Expression Programming: A New Adaptive Algorithm for Solving Problems.". Complex Systems, Vol. 13, issue 2: 87-129. | Julian: seminal paper on GEP - indirect encoding of GP trees in linear form | http://www.gene-expression-programming.com/webpapers/gep.pdf |
. | 4/8/2010 | D'Ambrosio, D.B., Stanley, K.O., (2008). "Generative Encoding for Multiagent Learning", In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008). New York, NY: ACM, 2008 (8 pages) | Julian: HyperNEAT / CPPNs applied to a Predator-Prey task. Won best paper. | http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/papers/dambrosio_gecco08.pdf |
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. | | Artificial Life | | |
. | 10/06/2010 | Sebastian Risi, Sandy D. Vanderbleek, Charles E. Hughes and Kenneth O. Stanley (2009). "How Novelty Search Escapes the Deceptive Trap of Learning to Learn", In GECCO-2009: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. ACM Press. | Julian: Cool Neuro-Evolution. Won best paper in ALife track. | http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/papers/risi_gecco09.pdf |
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. | | Applications of Evolutionary Computation | | |
. | 4/14/2011 | David-Tabibi, O, van den Herik, H.J., Koppel, M., Netanyahu, N.S. (2009). "Simulating Human Grandmasters: Evolution and Coevolution of Evaluation Functions", In GECCO-2009: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. ACM Press. | Julian: what you can do if you already have an expert player | http://www.omiddavid.com/pubs/gm-simul.pdf |
. | 02/04/2010 | Dirk Gorissen, Tom Dhaene, Filip De Turck (2009). "Evolutionary Model Type Selection for Global Surrogate Modeling". JMLR 10(Sep):2039--2078. | Igor: an interesting application that uses a genetic algorithm to answer the question "Which approximation method is best for my data?" | http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume10/gorissen09a/gorissen09a.pdf |
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. | | Estimation of Distribution Algorithms | | |
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. | | Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization | | |
. | 11/10/2009 | Deb, K.; Agrawal, S.; Pratab, A.; and Meyarivan, T. 2000. A Fast Elitist Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm for Multi-Objective Optimization: NSGA-II. PPSN 849-858. | Jacob: Original NSGA-II paper, a popular multiobjective EA | http://vision.ucsd.edu/~sagarwal/nsga2.pdf |
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. | | Other | | |
. | 03/11/2010 | Yi, S., Wierstra, D., Schaul, T., Schmidhuber, J. (2009). "Stochastic Search using the Natural Gradient", In: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML '09). | Bryan: search scheme from the IDSIA folks. | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1553374.1553522 |
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