Jason Zhi Liang
Collaborator
Jason's work focuses on neuroevolution, deep learning, evolutionary algorithms, and computer vision. His current and past research interests include using evolutionary heuristics to design better deep neural architectures and bilevel neuroevolution.
Homepage:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=h8yYr7oAAAAJ&hl=en
Publications
Asynchronous Evolution of Deep Neural Network Architectures 2024
Jason Liang, Hormoz Shahrzad, Risto Miikkulainen, Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 152 (2024), pp. 111209. Also arXiv:2308:04102.
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.
Regularized Evolutionary Population-Based Training 2021
Jason Liang, Santiago Gonzalez, Hormoz Shahrzad, and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp. 323-331, 2021.
Evolutionary Neural AutoML for Deep Learning 2019
Jason Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Babak Hodjat, Dan Fink, Karl Mutch, and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2019), pp. 401–409 2019.
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...
Evolutionary Architecture Search For Deep Multitask Networks 2018
Jason Liang, Elliot Meyerson, and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), pp. 466–473, Kyoto, Japan, 2018.
Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for Deep Learning 2018
Jason Zhi Liang, PhD Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin.
UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2015 3D Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenges Champions 2016
Patrick MacAlpine, Josiah Hanna, Jason Liang, and Peter Stone, In {R}obo{C}up-2015: Robot Soccer World Cup {XIX}, Luis Almeida and Jianmin Ji and Gerald Steinbauer and Sean Luke (Eds.), Berlin, Germany 2016. Springer Verlag.
Evolutionary Bilevel Optimization for Complex Control Problems and Blackbox Function Optimization 2015
Jason Zhi Liang, Masters Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin.
Evolutionary Bilevel Optimization for Complex Control Tasks 2015
Jason Zhi Liang, Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2015), pp. 871–878, Madrid, Spain, July 2015.
Areas of Interest
Control Evolutionary Computation Neuroevolution Robotics
Demos
Bilevel Optimization of the Helicopter Hovering Control TaskJason Zhi Liang and Risto Miikkulainen2015
Labs
Currently affiliated with Neural Networks Formerly affiliated with Neural Networks