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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.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.NE2019★ 49 cited

An Overview of Open-Ended Evolution: Editorial Introduction to the Open-Ended Evolution II Special Issue

Norman Packard, Mark A. Bedau, Alastair Channon +4

Nature's spectacular inventiveness, reflected in the enormous diversity of form and function displayed by the biosphere, is a feature of life that distinguishes living most strongl…

cs.NE2019★ 9 cited

Evolvability ES: Scalable and Direct Optimization of Evolvability

Alexander Gajewski, Jeff Clune, Kenneth O. Stanley +1

Designing evolutionary algorithms capable of uncovering highly evolvable representations is an open challenge; such evolvability is important because it accelerates evolution and e…

cs.NE2019

Deep Neuroevolution of Recurrent and Discrete World Models

Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley

Neural architectures inspired by our own human cognitive system, such as the recently introduced world models, have been shown to outperform traditional deep reinforcement learning…

cs.NE2019★ 124 cited

Paired Open-Ended Trailblazer (POET): Endlessly Generating Increasingly Complex and Diverse Learning Environments and Their Solutions

Rui Wang, Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune +1

While the history of machine learning so far largely encompasses a series of problems posed by researchers and algorithms that learn their solutions, an important question is wheth…

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…