no code implementations • 21 Nov 2023 • Risto Miikkulainen, Olivier Francon, Daniel Young, Elliot Meyerson, Clemens Schwingshackl, Jacob Bieker, Hugo Cunha, Babak Hodjat
How areas of land are allocated for different uses, such as forests, urban areas, and agriculture, has a large effect on the terrestrial carbon balance, and therefore climate change.
no code implementations • 21 Apr 2022 • Hormoz Shahrzad, Babak Hodjat, Risto Miikkulainen
The approach is evaluated in several prediction/classification and prescription/policy search domains with and without a surrogate.
no code implementations • 14 Mar 2022 • Babak Hodjat, Hormoz Shahrzad, Risto Miikkulainen
A domain-independent problem-solving system based on principles of Artificial Life is introduced.
1 code implementation • 28 May 2020 • Risto Miikkulainen, Olivier Francon, Elliot Meyerson, Xin Qiu, Elisa Canzani, Babak Hodjat
Several models have been developed to predict how the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, and how it could be contained with non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing restrictions and school and business closures.
1 code implementation • 13 Feb 2020 • Olivier Francon, Santiago Gonzalez, Babak Hodjat, Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen, Xin Qiu, Hormoz Shahrzad
Using this data, it is possible to learn a surrogate model, and with that model, evolve a decision strategy that optimizes the outcomes.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2019 • Hormoz Shahrzad, Babak Hodjat, Camille Dollé, Andrei Denissov, Simon Lau, Donn Goodhew, Justin Dyer, Risto Miikkulainen
This paper improves this approach further by introducing novelty pulsation, i. e. a systematic method to alternate between novelty selection and local optimization.
no code implementations • 30 May 2019 • Risto Miikkulainen, Bret Greenstein, Babak Hodjat, Jerry Smith
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is rapidly changing many areas of society.
1 code implementation • 18 Feb 2019 • Jason Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Babak Hodjat, Dan Fink, Karl Mutch, Risto Miikkulainen
However, the success of DNNs depends on the proper configuration of its architecture and hyperparameters.
no code implementations • 9 Mar 2018 • Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune, Dusan Misevic, Christoph Adami, Lee Altenberg, Julie Beaulieu, Peter J. Bentley, Samuel Bernard, Guillaume Beslon, David M. Bryson, Patryk Chrabaszcz, Nick Cheney, Antoine Cully, Stephane Doncieux, Fred C. Dyer, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Robert Feldt, Stephan Fischer, Stephanie Forrest, Antoine Frénoy, Christian Gagné, Leni Le Goff, Laura M. Grabowski, Babak Hodjat, Frank Hutter, Laurent Keller, Carole Knibbe, Peter Krcah, Richard E. Lenski, Hod Lipson, Robert MacCurdy, Carlos Maestre, Risto Miikkulainen, Sara Mitri, David E. Moriarty, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Anh Nguyen, Charles Ofria, Marc Parizeau, David Parsons, Robert T. Pennock, William F. Punch, Thomas S. Ray, Marc Schoenauer, Eric Shulte, Karl Sims, Kenneth O. Stanley, François Taddei, Danesh Tarapore, Simon Thibault, Westley Weimer, Richard Watson, Jason Yosinski
Biological evolution provides a creative fount of complex and subtle adaptations, often surprising the scientists who discover them.
4 code implementations • 1 Mar 2017 • Risto Miikkulainen, Jason Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Aditya Rawal, Dan Fink, Olivier Francon, Bala Raju, Hormoz Shahrzad, Arshak Navruzyan, Nigel Duffy, Babak Hodjat
The success of deep learning depends on finding an architecture to fit the task.