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most citedStructurally Flexible Neural Networks: Evolving the Building Blocks for General Agents

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cs.NE2025

Hypernetworks That Evolve Themselves

Joachim Winther Pedersen, Erwan Plantec, Eleni Nisioti +4

How can neural networks evolve themselves without relying on external optimizers? We propose Self-Referential Graph HyperNetworks, systems where the very machinery of variation and…

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…

cs.NE2024★ 2 cited

Structurally Flexible Neural Networks: Evolving the Building Blocks for General Agents

Joachim Winther Pedersen, Erwan Plantec, Eleni Nisioti +2

Artificial neural networks used for reinforcement learning are structurally rigid, meaning that each optimized parameter of the network is tied to its specific placement in the net…

cs.NE2024

Growing Artificial Neural Networks for Control: the Role of Neuronal Diversity

Eleni Nisioti, Erwan Plantec, Milton Montero +2

In biological evolution complex neural structures grow from a handful of cellular ingredients. As genomes in nature are bounded in size, this complexity is achieved by a growth pro…

cs.NE2022★ 2 cited

Flow-Lenia: Towards open-ended evolution in cellular automata through mass conservation and parameter localization

Erwan Plantec, Gautier Hamon, Mayalen Etcheverry +3

The design of complex self-organising systems producing life-like phenomena, such as the open-ended evolution of virtual creatures, is one of the main goals of artificial life. Len…