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13,902
Anytime Bi-Objective Optimization with a Hybrid Multi-Objective CMA-ES (HMO-CMA-ES)
cs.NE
We propose a multi-objective optimization algorithm aimed at achieving good anytime performance over a wide range of problems. Performance is assessed in terms of the hypervolume metric. The algorithm called HMO-CMA-ES represents a hybrid of several old and new variants of CMA-ES, complemented by BOBYQA as a warm start...
computer science
13,903
COCO: Performance Assessment
cs.NE
We present an any-time performance assessment for benchmarking numerical optimization algorithms in a black-box scenario, applied within the COCO benchmarking platform. The performance assessment is based on runtimes measured in number of objective function evaluations to reach one or several quality indicator target v...
computer science
13,904
Direct Method for Training Feed-forward Neural Networks using Batch Extended Kalman Filter for Multi-Step-Ahead Predictions
cs.NE
This paper is dedicated to the long-term, or multi-step-ahead, time series prediction problem. We propose a novel method for training feed-forward neural networks, such as multilayer perceptrons, with tapped delay lines. Special batch calculation of derivatives called Forecasted Propagation Through Time and batch modif...
computer science
13,905
Combinatorially Generated Piecewise Activation Functions
cs.NE
In the neuroevolution literature, research has primarily focused on evolving the number of nodes, connections, and weights in artificial neural networks. Few attempts have been made to evolve activation functions. Research in evolving activation functions has mainly focused on evolving function parameters, and developi...
computer science
13,906
Chess Player by Co-Evolutionary Algorithm
cs.NE
A co-evolutionary algorithm (CA) based chess player is presented. Implementation details of the algorithms, namely coding, population, variation operators are described. The alpha-beta or mini-max like behaviour of the player is achieved through two competitive or cooperative populations. Special attention is given to ...
computer science
13,907
Evolutionary Demographic Algorithms
cs.NE
Most of the problems in genetic algorithms are very complex and demand a large amount of resources that current technology can not offer. Our purpose was to develop a Java-JINI distributed library that implements Genetic Algorithms with sub-populations (coarse grain) and a graphical interface in order to configure and ...
computer science
13,908
Improving energy efficiency and classification accuracy of neuromorphic chips by learning binary synaptic crossbars
cs.NE
Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have achieved human level performance in many image analytics tasks but DNNs are mostly deployed to GPU platforms that consume a considerable amount of power. Brain-inspired spiking neuromorphic chips consume low power and can be highly parallelized. However, for deploying DNNs to energy effi...
computer science
13,909
On the performance of different mutation operators of a subpopulation-based genetic algorithm for multi-robot task allocation problems
cs.NE
The performance of different mutation operators is usually evaluated in conjunc-tion with specific parameter settings of genetic algorithms and target problems. Most studies focus on the classical genetic algorithm with different parameters or on solving unconstrained combinatorial optimization problems such as the tra...
computer science
13,910
A Spiking Network that Learns to Extract Spike Signatures from Speech Signals
cs.NE
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) with adaptive synapses reflect core properties of biological neural networks. Speech recognition, as an application involving audio coding and dynamic learning, provides a good test problem to study SNN functionality. We present a simple, novel, and efficient nonrecurrent SNN that learns ...
computer science
13,911
Training a Hidden Markov Model with a Bayesian Spiking Neural Network
cs.NE
It is of some interest to understand how statistically based mechanisms for signal processing might be integrated with biologically motivated mechanisms such as neural networks. This paper explores a novel hybrid approach for classifying segments of sequential data, such as individual spoken works. The approach combine...
computer science
13,912
Acquisition of Visual Features Through Probabilistic Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity
cs.NE
The final version of this paper has been published in IEEEXplore available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7727213. Please cite this paper as: Amirhossein Tavanaei, Timothee Masquelier, and Anthony Maida, Acquisition of visual features through probabilistic spike-timing-dependent plasticity. IEEE International J...
computer science
13,913
Critical Echo State Networks that Anticipate Input using Morphable Transfer Functions
cs.NE
The paper investigates a new type of truly critical echo state networks where individual transfer functions for every neuron can be modified to anticipate the expected next input. Deviations from expected input are only forgotten slowly in power law fashion. The paper outlines the theory, numerically analyzes a one neu...
computer science
13,914
Viral Search algorithm
cs.NE
The article, after a brief introduction on genetic algorithms and their functioning, presents a kind of genetic algorithm called Viral Search. We present the key concepts, we formally derive the algorithm and we perform numerical tests designed to illustrate the potential and limits.
computer science
13,915
Neural Networks and Continuous Time
cs.NE
The fields of neural computation and artificial neural networks have developed much in the last decades. Most of the works in these fields focus on implementing and/or learning discrete functions or behavior. However, technical, physical, and also cognitive processes evolve continuously in time. This cannot be describe...
computer science
13,916
Learning from Non-Stationary Stream Data in Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm
cs.NE
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been well acknowledged as a promising paradigm for solving optimisation problems with multiple conflicting objectives in the sense that they are able to locate a set of diverse approximations of Pareto optimal solutions in a single run. EAs drive the search for approximated solutions ...
computer science
13,917
Hitting times of local and global optima in genetic algorithms with very high selection pressure
cs.NE
The paper is devoted to upper bounds on the expected first hitting times of the sets of local or global optima for non-elitist genetic algorithms with very high selection pressure. The results of this paper extend the range of situations where the upper bounds on the expected runtime are known for genetic algorithms an...
computer science
13,918
Neural networks with differentiable structure
cs.NE
While gradient descent has proven highly successful in learning connection weights for neural networks, the actual structure of these networks is usually determined by hand, or by other optimization algorithms. Here we describe a simple method to make network structure differentiable, and therefore accessible to gradie...
computer science
13,919
Evolutionary computation for multicomponent problems: opportunities and future directions
cs.NE
Over the past 30 years many researchers in the field of evolutionary computation have put a lot of effort to introduce various approaches for solving hard problems. Most of these problems have been inspired by major industries so that solving them, by providing either optimal or near optimal solution, was of major sign...
computer science
13,920
A Modified Activation Function with Improved Run-Times For Neural Networks
cs.NE
In this paper we present a modified version of the Hyperbolic Tangent Activation Function as a learning unit generator for neural networks. The function uses an integer calibration constant as an approximation to the Euler number, e, based on a quadratic Real Number Formula (RNF) algorithm and an adaptive normalization...
computer science
13,921
The BioDynaMo Project
cs.NE
Computer simulations have become a very powerful tool for scientific research. Given the vast complexity that comes with many open scientific questions, a purely analytical or experimental approach is often not viable. For example, biological systems (such as the human brain) comprise an extremely complex organization ...
computer science
13,922
Forward Table-Based Presynaptic Event-Triggered Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity
cs.NE
Spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) incurs both causal and acausal synaptic weight updates, for negative and positive time differences between pre-synaptic and post-synaptic spike events. For realizing such updates in neuromorphic hardware, current implementations either require forward and reverse lookup access t...
computer science
13,923
Update Strength in EDAs and ACO: How to Avoid Genetic Drift
cs.NE
We provide a rigorous runtime analysis concerning the update strength, a vital parameter in probabilistic model-building GAs such as the step size $1/K$ in the compact Genetic Algorithm (cGA) and the evaporation factor $\rho$ in ACO. While a large update strength is desirable for exploitation, there is a general trade-...
computer science
13,924
Enhanced Boolean Correlation Matrix Memory
cs.NE
This paper introduces an Enhanced Boolean version of the Correlation Matrix Memory (CMM), which is useful to work with binary memories. A novel Boolean Orthonormalization Process (BOP) is presented to convert a non-orthonormal Boolean basis, i.e., a set of non-orthonormal binary vectors (in a Boolean sense) to an ortho...
computer science
13,925
mpEAd: Multi-Population EA Diagrams
cs.NE
Multi-population evolutionary algorithms are, by nature, highly complex and difficult to describe. Even two populations working in concert (or opposition) present a myriad of potential configurations that are often difficult to relate using text alone. Little effort has been made, however, to depict these kinds of syst...
computer science
13,926
Genetic Transfer or Population Diversification? Deciphering the Secret Ingredients of Evolutionary Multitask Optimization
cs.NE
Evolutionary multitasking has recently emerged as a novel paradigm that enables the similarities and/or latent complementarities (if present) between distinct optimization tasks to be exploited in an autonomous manner simply by solving them together with a unified solution representation scheme. An important matter und...
computer science
13,927
Stochastic Backpropagation through Mixture Density Distributions
cs.NE
The ability to backpropagate stochastic gradients through continuous latent distributions has been crucial to the emergence of variational autoencoders and stochastic gradient variational Bayes. The key ingredient is an unbiased and low-variance way of estimating gradients with respect to distribution parameters from g...
computer science
13,928
Effective Connectivity-Based Neural Decoding: A Causal Interaction-Driven Approach
cs.NE
We propose a geometric model-free causality measurebased on multivariate delay embedding that can efficiently detect linear and nonlinear causal interactions between time series with no prior information. We then exploit the proposed causal interaction measure in real MEG data analysis. The results are used to construc...
computer science
13,929
Heterogeneous Strategy Particle Swarm Optimization
cs.NE
PSO is a widely recognized optimization algorithm inspired by social swarm. In this brief we present a heterogeneous strategy particle swarm optimization (HSPSO), in which a proportion of particles adopt a fully informed strategy to enhance the converging speed while the rest are singly informed to maintain the diversi...
computer science
13,930
The Evolutionary Process of Image Transition in Conjunction with Box and Strip Mutation
cs.NE
Evolutionary algorithms have been used in many ways to generate digital art. We study how evolutionary processes are used for evolutionary art and present a new approach to the transition of images. Our main idea is to define evolutionary processes for digital image transition, combining different variants of mutation ...
computer science
13,931
The BioDynaMo Project: a platform for computer simulations of biological dynamics
cs.NE
This paper is a brief update on developments in the BioDynaMo project, a new platform for computer simulations for biological research. We will discuss the new capabilities of the simulator, important new concepts simulation methodology as well as its numerous applications to the computational biology and nanoscience c...
computer science
13,932
Student's t Distribution based Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for Derivative-free Global Optimization
cs.NE
In this paper, we are concerned with a branch of evolutionary algorithms termed estimation of distribution (EDA), which has been successfully used to tackle derivative-free global optimization problems. For existent EDA algorithms, it is a common practice to use a Gaussian distribution or a mixture of Gaussian componen...
computer science
13,933
Dynamic Multi-Objectives Optimization with a Changing Number of Objectives
cs.NE
Existing studies on dynamic multi-objective optimization focus on problems with time-dependent objective functions, while the ones with a changing number of objectives have rarely been considered in the literature. Instead of changing the shape or position of the Pareto-optimal front/set when having time-dependent obje...
computer science
13,934
Recurrent Neural Networks With Limited Numerical Precision
cs.NE
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) produce state-of-art performance on many machine learning tasks but their demand on resources in terms of memory and computational power are often high. Therefore, there is a great interest in optimizing the computations performed with these models especially when considering developmen...
computer science
13,935
About Learning in Recurrent Bistable Gradient Networks
cs.NE
Recurrent Bistable Gradient Networks are attractor based neural networks characterized by bistable dynamics of each single neuron. Coupled together using linear interaction determined by the interconnection weights, these networks do not suffer from spurious states or very limited capacity anymore. Vladimir Chinarov an...
computer science
13,936
Matching-Based Selection with Incomplete Lists for Decomposition Multi-Objective Optimization
cs.NE
The balance between convergence and diversity is a key issue of evolutionary multi-objective optimization. The recently proposed stable matching-based selection provides a new perspective to handle this balance under the framework of decomposition multi-objective optimization. In particular, the stable matching between...
computer science
13,937
Training Deep Spiking Neural Networks using Backpropagation
cs.NE
Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) hold great potential for improving the latency and energy efficiency of deep neural networks through event-based computation. However, training such networks is difficult due to the non-differentiable nature of asynchronous spike events. In this paper, we introduce a novel technique,...
computer science
13,938
Uniform Transformation of Non-Separable Probability Distributions
cs.NE
A theoretical framework is developed to describe the transformation that distributes probability density functions uniformly over space. In one dimension, the cumulative distribution can be used, but does not generalize to higher dimensions, or non-separable distributions. A potential function is shown to link probabil...
computer science
13,939
Fast and Efficient Asynchronous Neural Computation with Adapting Spiking Neural Networks
cs.NE
Biological neurons communicate with a sparing exchange of pulses - spikes. It is an open question how real spiking neurons produce the kind of powerful neural computation that is possible with deep artificial neural networks, using only so very few spikes to communicate. Building on recent insights in neuroscience, we ...
computer science
13,940
A Tutorial about Random Neural Networks in Supervised Learning
cs.NE
Random Neural Networks (RNNs) are a class of Neural Networks (NNs) that can also be seen as a specific type of queuing network. They have been successfully used in several domains during the last 25 years, as queuing networks to analyze the performance of resource sharing in many engineering areas, as learning tools an...
computer science
13,941
Low Complexity Multiply Accumulate Unit for Weight-Sharing Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.NE
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are one of the most successful deep machine learning technologies for processing image, voice and video data. CNNs require large amounts of processing capacity and memory, which can exceed the resources of low power mobile and embedded systems. Several designs for hardware accelerat...
computer science
13,942
Sooner than Expected: Hitting the Wall of Complexity in Evolution
cs.NE
In evolutionary robotics an encoding of the control software, which maps sensor data (input) to motor control values (output), is shaped by stochastic optimization methods to complete a predefined task. This approach is assumed to be beneficial compared to standard methods of controller design in those cases where no a...
computer science
13,943
Reactive Collision Avoidance using Evolutionary Neural Networks
cs.NE
Collision avoidance systems can play a vital role in reducing the number of accidents and saving human lives. In this paper, we introduce and validate a novel method for vehicles reactive collision avoidance using evolutionary neural networks (ENN). A single front-facing rangefinder sensor is the only input required by...
computer science
13,944
Proposal for a Leaky-Integrate-Fire Spiking Neuron based on Magneto-Electric Switching of Ferro-magnets
cs.NE
The efficiency of the human brain in performing classification tasks has attracted considerable research interest in brain-inspired neuromorphic computing. Hardware implementations of a neuromorphic system aims to mimic the computations in the brain through interconnection of neurons and synaptic weights. A leaky-integ...
computer science
13,945
Adaptive Neuron Apoptosis for Accelerating Deep Learning on Large Scale Systems
cs.NE
We present novel techniques to accelerate the convergence of Deep Learning algorithms by conducting low overhead removal of redundant neurons -- apoptosis of neurons -- which do not contribute to model learning, during the training phase itself. We provide in-depth theoretical underpinnings of our heuristics (bounding ...
computer science
13,946
LAYERS: Yet another Neural Network toolkit
cs.NE
Layers is an open source neural network toolkit aim at providing an easy way to implement modern neural networks. The main user target are students and to this end layers provides an easy scriptting language that can be early adopted. The user has to focus only on design details as network totpology and parameter tunni...
computer science
13,947
Nonlinear Systems Identification Using Deep Dynamic Neural Networks
cs.NE
Neural networks are known to be effective function approximators. Recently, deep neural networks have proven to be very effective in pattern recognition, classification tasks and human-level control to model highly nonlinear realworld systems. This paper investigates the effectiveness of deep neural networks in the mod...
computer science
13,948
Investigating the effects Diversity Mechanisms have on Evolutionary Algorithms in Dynamic Environments
cs.NE
Evolutionary algorithms have been successfully applied to a variety of optimisation problems in stationary environments. However, many real world optimisation problems are set in dynamic environments where the success criteria shifts regularly. Population diversity affects algorithmic performance, particularly on multi...
computer science
13,949
Evolving the Structure of Evolution Strategies
cs.NE
Various variants of the well known Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) have been proposed recently, which improve the empirical performance of the original algorithm by structural modifications. However, in practice it is often unclear which variation is best suited to the specific optimization pro...
computer science
13,950
Using Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations to Scale Up the Multi-dimensional Archive of Phenotypic Elites Algorithm
cs.NE
The recently introduced Multi-dimensional Archive of Phenotypic Elites (MAP-Elites) is an evolutionary algorithm capable of producing a large archive of diverse, high-performing solutions in a single run. It works by discretizing a continuous feature space into unique regions according to the desired discretization per...
computer science
13,951
Building Energy Load Forecasting using Deep Neural Networks
cs.NE
Ensuring sustainability demands more efficient energy management with minimized energy wastage. Therefore, the power grid of the future should provide an unprecedented level of flexibility in energy management. To that end, intelligent decision making requires accurate predictions of future energy demand/load, both at ...
computer science
13,952
Surrogate-Assisted Partial Order-based Evolutionary Optimisation
cs.NE
In this paper, we propose a novel approach (SAPEO) to support the survival selection process in multi-objective evolutionary algorithms with surrogate models - it dynamically chooses individuals to evaluate exactly based on the model uncertainty and the distinctness of the population. We introduce variants that differ ...
computer science
13,953
Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Sparse Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.NE
The storage and computation requirements of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can be prohibitive for exploiting these models over low-power or embedded devices. This paper reduces the computational complexity of the CNNs by minimizing an objective function, including the recognition loss that is augmented with a spa...
computer science
13,954
Sigma Delta Quantized Networks
cs.NE
Deep neural networks can be obscenely wasteful. When processing video, a convolutional network expends a fixed amount of computation for each frame with no regard to the similarity between neighbouring frames. As a result, it ends up repeatedly doing very similar computations. To put an end to such waste, we introduce ...
computer science
13,955
Bio-Inspired Spiking Convolutional Neural Network using Layer-wise Sparse Coding and STDP Learning
cs.NE
Hierarchical feature discovery using non-spiking convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has attracted much recent interest in machine learning and computer vision. However, it is still not well understood how to create a biologically plausible network of brain-like, spiking neurons with multi-layer, unsupervised learning...
computer science
13,956
Computing threshold functions using dendrites
cs.NE
Neurons, modeled as linear threshold unit (LTU), can in theory compute all thresh- old functions. In practice, however, some of these functions require synaptic weights of arbitrary large precision. We show here that dendrites can alleviate this requirement. We introduce here the non-Linear Threshold Unit (nLTU) that i...
computer science
13,957
Intrinsic Geometric Information Transfer Learning on Multiple Graph-Structured Datasets
cs.NE
Graphs provide a powerful means for representing complex interactions between entities. Recently, deep learning approaches are emerging for representing and modeling graph-structured data, although the conventional deep learning methods (such as convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks) have mainly f...
computer science
13,958
Differentiable Genetic Programming
cs.NE
We introduce the use of high order automatic differentiation, implemented via the algebra of truncated Taylor polynomials, in genetic programming. Using the Cartesian Genetic Programming encoding we obtain a high-order Taylor representation of the program output that is then used to back-propagate errors during learnin...
computer science
13,959
Recurrent Neural Networks With Limited Numerical Precision
cs.NE
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) produce state-of-art performance on many machine learning tasks but their demand on resources in terms of memory and computational power are often high. Therefore, there is a great interest in optimizing the computations performed with these models especially when considering developmen...
computer science
13,960
PlatEMO: A MATLAB Platform for Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization
cs.NE
Over the last three decades, a large number of evolutionary algorithms have been developed for solving multiobjective optimization problems. However, there lacks an up-to-date and comprehensive software platform for researchers to properly benchmark existing algorithms and for practitioners to apply selected algorithms...
computer science
13,961
Subpopulation Diversity Based Selecting Migration Moment in Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms
cs.NE
In distributed evolutionary algorithms, migration interval is used to decide migration moments. Nevertheless, migration moments predetermined by intervals cannot match the dynamic situation of evolution. In this paper, a scheme of setting the success rate of migration based on subpopulation diversity at each interval i...
computer science
13,962
Membrane-Dependent Neuromorphic Learning Rule for Unsupervised Spike Pattern Detection
cs.NE
Several learning rules for synaptic plasticity, that depend on either spike timing or internal state variables, have been proposed in the past imparting varying computational capabilities to Spiking Neural Networks. Due to design complications these learning rules are typically not implemented on neuromorphic devices l...
computer science
13,963
Classification Accuracy Improvement for Neuromorphic Computing Systems with One-level Precision Synapses
cs.NE
Brain inspired neuromorphic computing has demonstrated remarkable advantages over traditional von Neumann architecture for its high energy efficiency and parallel data processing. However, the limited resolution of synaptic weights degrades system accuracy and thus impedes the use of neuromorphic systems. In this work,...
computer science
13,964
Using LLVM-based JIT Compilation in Genetic Programming
cs.NE
The paper describes an approach to implementing genetic programming, which uses the LLVM library to just-in-time compile/interpret the evolved abstract syntax trees. The solution is described in some detail, including a parser (based on FlexC++ and BisonC++) that can construct the trees from a simple toy language with ...
computer science
13,965
Integration of Preferences in Decomposition Multi-Objective Optimization
cs.NE
Most existing studies on evolutionary multi-objective optimization focus on approximating the whole Pareto-optimal front. Nevertheless, rather than the whole front, which demands for too many points (especially in a high-dimensional space), the decision maker might only interest in a partial region, called the region o...
computer science
13,966
Robust Particle Swarm Optimizer based on Chemomimicry
cs.NE
A particle swarm optimizer (PSO) loosely based on the phenomena of crystallization and a chaos factor which follows the complimentary error function is described. The method features three phases: diffusion, directed motion, and nucleation. During the diffusion phase random walk is the only contributor to particle moti...
computer science
13,967
Multitask Evolution with Cartesian Genetic Programming
cs.NE
We introduce a genetic programming method for solving multiple Boolean circuit synthesis tasks simultaneously. This allows us to solve a set of elementary logic functions twice as easily as with a direct, single-task approach.
computer science
13,968
Stochastic Configuration Networks: Fundamentals and Algorithms
cs.NE
This paper contributes to a development of randomized methods for neural networks. The proposed learner model is generated incrementally by stochastic configuration (SC) algorithms, termed as Stochastic Configuration Networks (SCNs). In contrast to the existing randomised learning algorithms for single layer feed-forwa...
computer science
13,969
Whale swarm algorithm for function optimization
cs.NE
Increasing nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms are applied to solving the real-world optimization problems, as they have some advantages over the classical methods of numerical optimization. This paper has proposed a new nature-inspired metaheuristic called Whale Swarm Algorithm for function optimization, which is...
computer science
13,970
Hierarchy Influenced Differential Evolution: A Motor Operation Inspired Approach
cs.NE
Operational maturity of biological control systems have fuelled the inspiration for a large number of mathematical and logical models for control, automation and optimisation. The human brain represents the most sophisticated control architecture known to us and is a central motivation for several research attempts acr...
computer science
13,971
Toward Abstraction from Multi-modal Data: Empirical Studies on Multiple Time-scale Recurrent Models
cs.NE
The abstraction tasks are challenging for multi- modal sequences as they require a deeper semantic understanding and a novel text generation for the data. Although the recurrent neural networks (RNN) can be used to model the context of the time-sequences, in most cases the long-term dependencies of multi-modal data mak...
computer science
13,972
Analyzing and Exploiting NARX Recurrent Neural Networks for Long-Term Dependencies
cs.NE
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on many diverse tasks, from machine translation to surgical activity recognition, yet training RNNs to capture long-term dependencies remains difficult. To date, the vast majority of successful RNN architectures alleviate this problem by facili...
computer science
13,973
Improving the Neural GPU Architecture for Algorithm Learning
cs.NE
Algorithm learning is a core problem in artificial intelligence with significant implications on automation level that can be achieved by machines. Recently deep learning methods are emerging for synthesizing an algorithm from its input-output examples, the most successful being the Neural GPU, capable of learning mult...
computer science
13,974
Co-evolutionary multi-task learning for dynamic time series prediction
cs.NE
Multi-task learning employs shared representation of knowledge for learning multiple instances from the same or related problems. Time series prediction consists of several instances that are defined by the way they are broken down into fixed windows known as embedding dimension. Finding the optimal values for embeddin...
computer science
13,975
Neuromorphic Hardware In The Loop: Training a Deep Spiking Network on the BrainScaleS Wafer-Scale System
cs.NE
Emulating spiking neural networks on analog neuromorphic hardware offers several advantages over simulating them on conventional computers, particularly in terms of speed and energy consumption. However, this usually comes at the cost of reduced control over the dynamics of the emulated networks. In this paper, we demo...
computer science
13,976
Fast Genetic Algorithms
cs.NE
For genetic algorithms using a bit-string representation of length~$n$, the general recommendation is to take $1/n$ as mutation rate. In this work, we discuss whether this is really justified for multimodal functions. Taking jump functions and the $(1+1)$ evolutionary algorithm as the simplest example, we observe that ...
computer science
13,977
Evolutionary Image Composition Using Feature Covariance Matrices
cs.NE
Evolutionary algorithms have recently been used to create a wide range of artistic work. In this paper, we propose a new approach for the composition of new images from existing ones, that retain some salient features of the original images. We introduce evolutionary algorithms that create new images based on a fitness...
computer science
13,978
Comparison of echo state network output layer classification methods on noisy data
cs.NE
Echo state networks are a recently developed type of recurrent neural network where the internal layer is fixed with random weights, and only the output layer is trained on specific data. Echo state networks are increasingly being used to process spatiotemporal data in real-world settings, including speech recognition,...
computer science
13,979
Large Scale Evolution of Convolutional Neural Networks Using Volunteer Computing
cs.NE
This work presents a new algorithm called evolutionary exploration of augmenting convolutional topologies (EXACT), which is capable of evolving the structure of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). EXACT is in part modeled after the neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT) algorithm, with notable exceptions to a...
computer science
13,980
Reservoir Computing and Extreme Learning Machines using Pairs of Cellular Automata Rules
cs.NE
A framework for implementing reservoir computing (RC) and extreme learning machines (ELMs), two types of artificial neural networks, based on 1D elementary Cellular Automata (CA) is presented, in which two separate CA rules explicitly implement the minimum computational requirements of the reservoir layer: hyperdimensi...
computer science
13,981
An Adaptive Framework to Tune the Coordinate Systems in Evolutionary Algorithms
cs.NE
In the evolutionary computation research community, the performance of most evolutionary algorithms (EAs) depends strongly on their implemented coordinate system. However, the commonly used coordinate system is fixed and not well suited for different function landscapes, EAs thus might not search efficiently. To overco...
computer science
13,982
Empirical Analysis of the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of the Echo State Property
cs.NE
The Echo State Network (ESN) is a specific recurrent network, which has gained popularity during the last years. The model has a recurrent network named reservoir, that is fixed during the learning process. The reservoir is used for transforming the input space in a larger space. A fundamental property that provokes an...
computer science
13,983
Evolving Parsimonious Networks by Mixing Activation Functions
cs.NE
Neuroevolution methods evolve the weights of a neural network, and in some cases the topology, but little work has been done to analyze the effect of evolving the activation functions of individual nodes on network size, which is important when training networks with a small number of samples. In this work we extend th...
computer science
13,984
Long-Term Evolution of Genetic Programming Populations
cs.NE
We evolve binary mux-6 trees for up to 100000 generations evolving some programs with more than a hundred million nodes. Our unbounded Long-Term Evolution Experiment LTEE GP appears not to evolve building blocks but does suggests a limit to bloat. We do see periods of tens even hundreds of generations where the populat...
computer science
13,985
PonyGE2: Grammatical Evolution in Python
cs.NE
Grammatical Evolution (GE) is a population-based evolutionary algorithm, where a formal grammar is used in the genotype to phenotype mapping process. PonyGE2 is an open source implementation of GE in Python, developed at UCD's Natural Computing Research and Applications group. It is intended as an advertisement and a s...
computer science
13,986
Balancing Selection Pressures, Multiple Objectives, and Neural Modularity to Coevolve Cooperative Agent Behavior
cs.NE
Previous research using evolutionary computation in Multi-Agent Systems indicates that assigning fitness based on team vs.\ individual behavior has a strong impact on the ability of evolved teams of artificial agents to exhibit teamwork in challenging tasks. However, such research only made use of single-objective evol...
computer science
13,987
Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient for Urban Traffic Light Control
cs.NE
Traffic light timing optimization is still an active line of research despite the wealth of scientific literature on the topic, and the problem remains unsolved for any non-toy scenario. One of the key issues with traffic light optimization is the large scale of the input information that is available for the controlli...
computer science
13,988
Experimental Analysis of Design Elements of Scalarizing Functions-based Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms
cs.NE
In this paper we systematically study the importance, i.e., the influence on performance, of the main design elements that differentiate scalarizing functions-based multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). This class of MOEAs includes Multiobjecitve Genetic Local Search (MOGLS) and Multiobjective Evolutionary Al...
computer science
13,989
Experience-based Optimization: A Coevolutionary Approach
cs.NE
This paper studies improving solvers based on their past solving experiences, and focuses on improving solvers by offline training. Specifically, the key issues of offline training methods are discussed, and research belonging to this category but from different areas are reviewed in a unified framework. Existing train...
computer science
13,990
Hierarchical Surrogate Modeling for Illumination Algorithms
cs.NE
Evolutionary illumination is a recent technique that allows producing many diverse, optimal solutions in a map of manually defined features. To support the large amount of objective function evaluations, surrogate model assistance was recently introduced. Illumination models need to represent many more, diverse optimal...
computer science
13,991
Upper Bounds on the Runtime of the Univariate Marginal Distribution Algorithm on OneMax
cs.NE
A runtime analysis of the Univariate Marginal Distribution Algorithm (UMDA) is presented on the OneMax function for wide ranges of its parameters $\mu$ and $\lambda$. If $\mu\ge c\log n$ for some constant $c>0$ and $\lambda=(1+\Theta(1))\mu$, a general bound $O(\mu n)$ on the expected runtime is obtained. This bound cr...
computer science
13,992
A Brownian Motion Model and Extreme Belief Machine for Modeling Sensor Data Measurements
cs.NE
As the title suggests, we will describe (and justify through the presentation of some of the relevant mathematics) prediction methodologies for sensor measurements. This exposition will mainly be concerned with the mathematics related to modeling the sensor measurements.
computer science
13,993
A Genetic Programming Approach to Designing Convolutional Neural Network Architectures
cs.NE
The convolutional neural network (CNN), which is one of the deep learning models, has seen much success in a variety of computer vision tasks. However, designing CNN architectures still requires expert knowledge and a lot of trial and error. In this paper, we attempt to automatically construct CNN architectures for an ...
computer science
13,994
A Software-equivalent SNN Hardware using RRAM-array for Asynchronous Real-time Learning
cs.NE
Spiking Neural Network (SNN) naturally inspires hardware implementation as it is based on biology. For learning, spike time dependent plasticity (STDP) may be implemented using an energy efficient waveform superposition on memristor based synapse. However, system level implementation has three challenges. First, a clas...
computer science
13,995
The (1+$λ$) Evolutionary Algorithm with Self-Adjusting Mutation Rate
cs.NE
We propose a new way to self-adjust the mutation rate in population-based evolutionary algorithms in discrete search spaces. Roughly speaking, it consists of creating half the offspring with a mutation rate that is twice the current mutation rate and the other half with half the current rate. The mutation rate is then ...
computer science
13,996
Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization Based on Adversarial Decomposition
cs.NE
The decomposition-based method has been recognized as a major approach for multi-objective optimization. It decomposes a multi-objective optimization problem into several single-objective optimization subproblems, each of which is usually defined as a scalarizing function using a weight vector. Due to the characteristi...
computer science
13,997
Automated Curriculum Learning for Neural Networks
cs.NE
We introduce a method for automatically selecting the path, or syllabus, that a neural network follows through a curriculum so as to maximise learning efficiency. A measure of the amount that the network learns from each data sample is provided as a reward signal to a nonstationary multi-armed bandit algorithm, which t...
computer science
13,998
Improving Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Classification on Unbalanced Credit Card Datasets
cs.NE
Credit card fraud detection based on machine learning has recently attracted considerable interest from the research community. One of the most important tasks in this area is the ability of classifiers to handle the imbalance in credit card data. In this scenario, classifiers tend to yield poor accuracy on the fraud c...
computer science
13,999
ApproxDBN: Approximate Computing for Discriminative Deep Belief Networks
cs.NE
Probabilistic generative neural networks are useful for many applications, such as image classification, speech recognition and occlusion removal. However, the power budget for hardware implementations of neural networks can be extremely tight. To address this challenge we describe a design methodology for using approx...
computer science
14,000
A Search for Improved Performance in Regular Expressions
cs.NE
The primary aim of automated performance improvement is to reduce the running time of programs while maintaining (or improving on) functionality. In this paper, Genetic Programming is used to find performance improvements in regular expressions for an array of target programs, representing the first application of auto...
computer science
14,001
Runtime Analysis of the $(1+(λ,λ))$ Genetic Algorithm on Random Satisfiable 3-CNF Formulas
cs.NE
The $(1+(\lambda,\lambda))$ genetic algorithm, first proposed at GECCO 2013, showed a surprisingly good performance on so me optimization problems. The theoretical analysis so far was restricted to the OneMax test function, where this GA profited from the perfect fitness-distance correlation. In this work, we conduct a...
computer science