no code implementations • 15 May 2019 • David Laredo, Yulin Qin, Oliver Schütze, Jian-Qiao Sun
The main contributions of this method are a simple list based encoding for neural networks as genotypes in an evolutionary algorithm, new crossover, and mutation operators, the introduction of a fitness function that considers both, the accuracy of the model and its complexity and a method to measure the similarity between two neural networks.