Evolving Neural Arrays A new mechanism for learning complex action sequences

Incremental evolution has proved to be an extremely useful mechanism in complex actions sequence learning. Its performance is based on the decomposition of the original problem into increasingly complex stages whose learning is carried out sequentially, starting from the simplest stage and thus incr...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Leonardo Corbalán, Laura Lanzarini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informática 2018-09-01
Series:CLEI Electronic Journal
Subjects:
Online Access:http://clei.org/cleiej-beta/index.php/cleiej/article/view/348
_version_ 1818362509903527936
author Leonardo Corbalán
Laura Lanzarini
author_facet Leonardo Corbalán
Laura Lanzarini
author_sort Leonardo Corbalán
collection DOAJ
description Incremental evolution has proved to be an extremely useful mechanism in complex actions sequence learning. Its performance is based on the decomposition of the original problem into increasingly complex stages whose learning is carried out sequentially, starting from the simplest stage and thus increasing its generality and difficulty. The present work proposes neural array applications as a novel mechanism for complex actions sequence learning. Each array is composed by several neural nets obtained by means of an evolving process allowing them to acquire various degrees of specialization. Neural nets constituting the same array are organized so that, in each assessment, there is only one in charge of its response. The proposed strategy is applied to problems presented by obstacle evasion and target reaching as a means to show the capability of this proposal to solve complex problems. The measurements carried out show the superiority of evolving neural arrays over traditional neuroevolving methods that handle neural network populations – SANE is being particularly used as a comparative reference due to its high performance. Neural array capability to recover from previous defective evolving stages has been tested, evincing highly plausible final successful outcomes – even in those adverse cases. Finally, conclusions are presented as well as some future lines of work.
first_indexed 2024-12-13T21:33:43Z
format Article
id doaj.art-dc44b171c2bf483b9e496ef83ebe5e8a
institution Directory Open Access Journal
issn 0717-5000
language English
last_indexed 2024-12-13T21:33:43Z
publishDate 2018-09-01
publisher Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informática
record_format Article
series CLEI Electronic Journal
spelling doaj.art-dc44b171c2bf483b9e496ef83ebe5e8a2022-12-21T23:30:44ZengCentro Latinoamericano de Estudios en InformáticaCLEI Electronic Journal0717-50002018-09-016110.19153/cleiej.6.1.5Evolving Neural Arrays A new mechanism for learning complex action sequencesLeonardo Corbalán0Laura Lanzarini1Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de InformáticaUniversidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Informática,Incremental evolution has proved to be an extremely useful mechanism in complex actions sequence learning. Its performance is based on the decomposition of the original problem into increasingly complex stages whose learning is carried out sequentially, starting from the simplest stage and thus increasing its generality and difficulty. The present work proposes neural array applications as a novel mechanism for complex actions sequence learning. Each array is composed by several neural nets obtained by means of an evolving process allowing them to acquire various degrees of specialization. Neural nets constituting the same array are organized so that, in each assessment, there is only one in charge of its response. The proposed strategy is applied to problems presented by obstacle evasion and target reaching as a means to show the capability of this proposal to solve complex problems. The measurements carried out show the superiority of evolving neural arrays over traditional neuroevolving methods that handle neural network populations – SANE is being particularly used as a comparative reference due to its high performance. Neural array capability to recover from previous defective evolving stages has been tested, evincing highly plausible final successful outcomes – even in those adverse cases. Finally, conclusions are presented as well as some future lines of work.http://clei.org/cleiej-beta/index.php/cleiej/article/view/348Evolving Neural NetsLearningComplex Actions Sequence LearningIncremental EvolutionGenetic Algorithms
spellingShingle Leonardo Corbalán
Laura Lanzarini
Evolving Neural Arrays A new mechanism for learning complex action sequences
CLEI Electronic Journal
Evolving Neural Nets
Learning
Complex Actions Sequence Learning
Incremental Evolution
Genetic Algorithms
title Evolving Neural Arrays A new mechanism for learning complex action sequences
title_full Evolving Neural Arrays A new mechanism for learning complex action sequences
title_fullStr Evolving Neural Arrays A new mechanism for learning complex action sequences
title_full_unstemmed Evolving Neural Arrays A new mechanism for learning complex action sequences
title_short Evolving Neural Arrays A new mechanism for learning complex action sequences
title_sort evolving neural arrays a new mechanism for learning complex action sequences
topic Evolving Neural Nets
Learning
Complex Actions Sequence Learning
Incremental Evolution
Genetic Algorithms
url http://clei.org/cleiej-beta/index.php/cleiej/article/view/348
work_keys_str_mv AT leonardocorbalan evolvingneuralarraysanewmechanismforlearningcomplexactionsequences
AT lauralanzarini evolvingneuralarraysanewmechanismforlearningcomplexactionsequences