Evolving plastic neural networks for online learning: review and future directions

Authors:
Oliver J. Coleman;Alan D. Blair
Affiliations:
School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Venue:
AI'12 Proceedings of the 25th Australasian joint conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in evolving plastic neural networks for online learning. These approaches have an intrinsic appeal --- since, to date, the only working example of general intelligence is the human brain, which has developed through evolution, and exhibits a great capacity to adapt to unfamiliar environments. In this paper we review prior work in this area --- including problem domains and tasks, fitness functions, synaptic plasticity models and neural network encoding schemes. We conclude with a discussion of current findings and promising future directions, including incorporation of functional properties observed in biological neural networks which appear to play a role in learning processes, and addressing the "general" in general intelligence by the introduction of previously unseen tasks during the evolution process.