Evolutionary artificial neural networks

Abstract
We present experiments which show that a genetic algorithm(GA) can effectively search for a set of local feature detectors,which can be used by higher neural network layers toperform an image classification task. Three different methodsof encoding hidden unit weights into the GA are presented,including one which coevolves all the feature detectors ina single chromosome, and two which promote the cooperationof feature detectors by encoding them in their own chromosome.The fitness...

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