Cooperative Coevolution of Neural Networks and Ensembles of Neural Networks

2006 ◽  
pp. 465-490
Author(s):  
Nicolás García-Pedrajas
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Cooperative Coevolution

Evolving Deep Neural Networks via Cooperative Coevolution With Backpropagation

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 420-434
Author(s):  
Maoguo Gong ◽  
Jia Liu ◽  
A. K. Qin ◽  
Kun Zhao ◽  
Kay Chen Tan
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Cooperative Coevolution

scholarly journals Problem Decomposition and  Adaptation in Cooperative  Neuro-Evolution

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rohitash Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Local Search ◽  
Decomposition Method ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Decomposition Methods ◽  
Grammatical Inference ◽  
Problem Decomposition ◽  
Cooperative Coevolution ◽  
Inference Problems ◽  
Hidden Layer

<p>One way to train neural networks is to use evolutionary algorithms such as cooperative coevolution - a method that decomposes the network's learnable parameters into subsets, called subcomponents. Cooperative coevolution gains advantage over other methods by evolving particular subcomponents independently from the rest of the network. Its success depends strongly on how the problem decomposition is carried out. This thesis suggests new forms of problem decomposition, based on a novel and intuitive choice of modularity, and examines in detail at what stage and to what extent the different decomposition methods should be used. The new methods are evaluated by training feedforward networks to solve pattern classification tasks, and by training recurrent networks to solve grammatical inference problems. Efficient problem decomposition methods group interacting variables into the same subcomponents. We examine the methods from the literature and provide an analysis of the nature of the neural network optimization problem in terms of interacting variables. We then present a novel problem decomposition method that groups interacting variables and that can be generalized to neural networks with more than a single hidden layer. We then incorporate local search into cooperative neuro-evolution. We present a memetic cooperative coevolution method that takes into account the cost of employing local search across several sub-populations. The optimisation process changes during evolution in terms of diversity and interacting variables. To address this, we examine the adaptation of the problem decomposition method during the evolutionary process. The results in this thesis show that the proposed methods improve performance in terms of optimization time, scalability and robustness. As a further test, we apply the problem decomposition and adaptive cooperative coevolution methods for training recurrent neural networks on chaotic time series problems. The proposed methods show better performance in terms of accuracy and robustness.</p>

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