3 papers
cs.LG2025
When Does Neuroevolution Outcompete Reinforcement Learning in Transfer Learning Tasks?
Eleni Nisioti, Joachim Winther Pedersen, Erwan Plantec +2
The ability to continuously and efficiently transfer skills across tasks is a hallmark of biological intelligence and a long-standing goal in artificial systems. Reinforcement lear…
cs.NE2024
Meta-Learning an Evolvable Developmental Encoding
Milton L. Montero, Erwan Plantec, Eleni Nisioti +2
Representations for black-box optimisation methods (such as evolutionary algorithms) are traditionally constructed using a delicate manual process. This is in contrast to the repre…
cs.NE2024
Evolving Self-Assembling Neural Networks: From Spontaneous Activity to Experience-Dependent Learning
Erwan Plantec, Joachin W. Pedersen, Milton L. Montero +2
Biological neural networks are characterized by their high degree of plasticity, a core property that enables the remarkable adaptability of natural organisms. Importantly, this ab…