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

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cs.LG2021

Towards Consistent Predictive Confidence through Fitted Ensembles

Navid Kardan, Ankit Sharma, Kenneth O. Stanley

Deep neural networks are behind many of the recent successes in machine learning applications. However, these models can produce overconfident decisions while encountering out-of-d…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Synthetic Petri Dish: A Novel Surrogate Model for Rapid Architecture Search

Aditya Rawal, Joel Lehman, Felipe Petroski Such +2

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) explores a large space of architectural motifs -- a compute-intensive process that often involves ground-truth evaluation of each motif by instanti…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Fiber: A Platform for Efficient Development and Distributed Training for Reinforcement Learning and Population-Based Methods

Jiale Zhi, Rui Wang, Jeff Clune +1

Recent advances in machine learning are consistently enabled by increasing amounts of computation. Reinforcement learning (RL) and population-based methods in particular pose uniqu…

cs.LG2020★ 69 cited

Learning to Continually Learn

Shawn Beaulieu, Lapo Frati, Thomas Miconi +4

Continual lifelong learning requires an agent or model to learn many sequentially ordered tasks, building on previous knowledge without catastrophically forgetting it. Much work ha…

cs.LG2019★ 48 cited

Generative Teaching Networks: Accelerating Neural Architecture Search by Learning to Generate Synthetic Training Data

Felipe Petroski Such, Aditya Rawal, Joel Lehman +2

This paper investigates the intriguing question of whether we can create learning algorithms that automatically generate training data, learning environments, and curricula in orde…

cs.LG2019★ 208 cited

Go-Explore: a New Approach for Hard-Exploration Problems

Adrien Ecoffet, Joost Huizinga, Joel Lehman +2

A grand challenge in reinforcement learning is intelligent exploration, especially when rewards are sparse or deceptive. Two Atari games serve as benchmarks for such hard-explorati…