Evolving Neural Network Structures by Means of Genetic Programming

  • Authors:
  • Wolfgang Golubski;Thomas Feuring

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Genetic Programming
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The goal of this paper is to present a more efficient way to automatically construct appropriate neural network topologies as well as their initial weight settings. Our approach combines evolutionary algorithms and genetic programming techniques and is based on a new network encoding schema where instead of a string like encoding the graph representation of neural nets is used. This way of "encoding" reduces the computational expense and leads to a greater variety of network topologies.