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Forcing neurocontrollers to exploit sensory symmetry through hard-wired modularity in the game of Cellz

Togelius, Julian and Lucas, Simon M. (2005) Forcing neurocontrollers to exploit sensory symmetry through hard-wired modularity in the game of Cellz. [Conference Paper]

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Several attempts have been made in the past to construct encoding schemes that allow modularity to emerge in evolving systems, but success is limited. We believe that in order to create successful and scalable encodings for emerging modularity, we first need to explore the benefits of different types of modularity by hard-wiring these into evolvable systems. In this paper we explore different ways of exploiting sensory symmetry inherent in the agent in the simple game Cellz by evolving symmetrically identical modules. It is concluded that significant increases in both speed of evolution and final fitness can be achieved relative to monolithic controllers. Furthermore, we show that a simple function approximation task that exhibits sensory symmetry can be used as a quick approximate measure of the utility of an encoding scheme for the more complex game-playing task.

Item Type:Conference Paper
Subjects:Neuroscience > Computational Neuroscience
Computer Science > Neural Nets
Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
ID Code:4103
Deposited By: Togelius, Julian
Deposited On:05 May 2005
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:55

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