3 papers
cs.NE2025
Task-Specific Activation Functions for Neuroevolution using Grammatical Evolution
Benjamin David Winter, William John Teahan
Activation functions play a critical role in the performance and behaviour of neural networks, significantly impacting their ability to learn and generalise. Traditional activation…
cs.NE2025
Ecological Neural Architecture Search
Benjamin David Winter, William J. Teahan
When employing an evolutionary algorithm to optimize a neural networks architecture, developers face the added challenge of tuning the evolutionary algorithm's own hyperparameters…
cs.NE2025
Evaluating a Novel Neuroevolution and Neural Architecture Search System
Benjamin David Winter, William John Teahan
The choice of neural network features can have a large impact on both the accuracy and speed of the network. Despite the current industry shift towards large transformer models, sp…