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most citedDeep Neuroevolution: Genetic Algorithms Are a Competitive Alternative for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning

544 citations · 919 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CV2024

AuroraCap: Efficient, Performant Video Detailed Captioning and a New Benchmark

Wenhao Chai, Enxin Song, Yilun Du +6

Video detailed captioning is a key task which aims to generate comprehensive and coherent textual descriptions of video content, benefiting both video understanding and generation.…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

DECORE: Deep Compression with Reinforcement Learning

Manoj Alwani, Yang Wang, Vashisht Madhavan

Deep learning has become an increasingly popular and powerful methodology for modern pattern recognition systems. However, many deep neural networks have millions or billions of pa…

cs.NE2020★ 55 cited

Scaling MAP-Elites to Deep Neuroevolution

Cédric Colas, Joost Huizinga, Vashisht Madhavan +1

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms, and MAP-Elites (ME) in particular, have proven very useful for a broad range of applications including enabling real robots to recover quickly fr…

cs.NE2018★ 1 cited

An Atari Model Zoo for Analyzing, Visualizing, and Comparing Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents

Felipe Petroski Such, Vashisht Madhavan, Rosanne Liu +8

Much human and computational effort has aimed to improve how deep reinforcement learning algorithms perform on benchmarks such as the Atari Learning Environment. Comparatively less…

cs.CV2018★ 203 cited

BDD100K: A Diverse Driving Dataset for Heterogeneous Multitask Learning

Fisher Yu, Haofeng Chen, Xin Wang +5

Datasets drive vision progress, yet existing driving datasets are impoverished in terms of visual content and supported tasks to study multitask learning for autonomous driving. Re…

cs.NE2017★ 544 cited

Deep Neuroevolution: Genetic Algorithms Are a Competitive Alternative for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning

Felipe Petroski Such, Vashisht Madhavan, Edoardo Conti +3

Deep artificial neural networks (DNNs) are typically trained via gradient-based learning algorithms, namely backpropagation. Evolution strategies (ES) can rival backprop-based algo…

cs.AI2017★ 114 cited

Improving Exploration in Evolution Strategies for Deep Reinforcement Learning via a Population of Novelty-Seeking Agents

Edoardo Conti, Vashisht Madhavan, Felipe Petroski Such +3

Evolution strategies (ES) are a family of black-box optimization algorithms able to train deep neural networks roughly as well as Q-learning and policy gradient methods on challeng…