Supplementing evolutionary developmental systems with abstract models of neurogenesis

Authors:
Keith L. Downing
Affiliations:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, UNK, Norway
Venue:
Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This work investigates an intermediate abstraction level, that of neural groups, for modelling the development of complex artificial neural networks. Based on Neural Darwinism \cite{edelman:2000}, Displacement Theory \cite{deacon:1998} and The Neuromeric Model \cite{striedter:2005}, our DEACANN system avoids the complexities of axonal and dendritic growth while maintaining key aspects of cell signalling, competition and cooperation that appear to govern the formation of neural topologies in nature. DEACANN also includes a genetic-algorithm for evolving developmental recipes, and the mature networks employ several forms of learning.