Deep learning in neural networks: An overview

J Schmidhuber - Neural networks, 2015 - Elsevier
In recent years, deep artificial neural networks (including recurrent ones) have won
numerous contests in pattern recognition and machine learning. This historical survey …

Neural modularity helps organisms evolve to learn new skills without forgetting old skills

KO Ellefsen, JB Mouret, J Clune - PLoS computational biology, 2015 - journals.plos.org
A long-standing goal in artificial intelligence is creating agents that can learn a variety of
different skills for different problems. In the artificial intelligence subfield of neural networks …

Real-time neuroevolution in the NERO video game

KO Stanley, BD Bryant… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In most modern video games, character behavior is scripted; no matter how many times the
player exploits a weakness, that weakness is never repaired. Yet, if game characters could …

[PDF][PDF] Accelerated Neural Evolution through Cooperatively Coevolved Synapses.

F Gomez, J Schmidhuber, R Miikkulainen… - Journal of Machine …, 2008 - jmlr.org
Many complex control problems require sophisticated solutions that are not amenable to
traditional controller design. Not only is it difficult to model real world systems, but often it is …

Evolutionary computation for reinforcement learning

S Whiteson - Reinforcement Learning: State-of-the-art, 2012 - Springer
Algorithms for evolutionary computation, which simulate the process of natural selection to
solve optimization problems, are an effective tool for discovering high-performing …

A system for robotic heart surgery that learns to tie knots using recurrent neural networks

H Mayer, F Gomez, D Wierstra, I Nagy, A Knoll… - Advanced …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Tying suture knots is a time-consuming task performed frequently during minimally invasive
surgery (MIS). Automating this task could greatly reduce total surgery time for patients …

Driven by compression progress: A simple principle explains essential aspects of subjective beauty, novelty, surprise, interestingness, attention, curiosity, creativity, art …

J Schmidhuber - Workshop on anticipatory behavior in adaptive learning …, 2008 - Springer
I argue that data becomes temporarily interesting by itself to some self-improving, but
computationally limited, subjective observer once he learns to predict or compress the data …

On learning to think: Algorithmic information theory for novel combinations of reinforcement learning controllers and recurrent neural world models

J Schmidhuber - arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.09249, 2015 - arxiv.org
This paper addresses the general problem of reinforcement learning (RL) in partially
observable environments. In 2013, our large RL recurrent neural networks (RNNs) learned …

JSBSim: An open source flight dynamics model in C++

J Berndt - … and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit, 2004 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper gives an overview of JSBSim, an open source, multi-platform, flight dynamics
model (FDM) framework written in the C++ programming language. JSBSim is designed to …

Discovering parametric activation functions

G Bingham, R Miikkulainen - Neural Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent studies have shown that the choice of activation function can significantly affect the
performance of deep learning networks. However, the benefits of novel activation functions …