nn2

** This is a Sferes2 module **

NN2 is a generic toolbox for evolving neural networks (it depends on sferes2).

If you use this software in an academic article, please cite:

Mouret, J.-B. and Doncieux, S. (2012). Encouraging Behavioral Diversity in Evolutionary Robotics: an Empirical Study. Evolutionary Computation. Vol 20 No 1 Pages 91-133.

Usage & installation

• copy nn2 to the "modules" directory in the sferes2 root directory.
• add nn2 in modules.conf in the sferes2 root directory
• run ./waf configure and ./waf build

Academic paper that uses nn2

• Please note that many of these papers extends nn2 *

• Tonelli, P. and Mouret, J.-B. (2013). On the Relationships between Generative Encodings, Regularity, and Learning Abilities when Evolving Plastic Artificial Neural Networks. PLoS One. Vol 8 No 11 Pages e79138.
• Clune*, J. and Mouret, J.-B. and Lipson, H. (2013). The evolutionary origins of modularity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Vol 280 (J. Clune and J.-B. Mouret contributed equally to this work) Pages 20122863.
• Doncieux, S. and Mouret, J.B. (2013). Behavioral Diversity with Multiple Behavioral Distances. Proc. of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2013 (CEC 2013). Pages 1-8.
• Mouret, J.-B. and Doncieux, S. (2012). Encouraging Behavioral Diversity in Evolutionary Robotics: an Empirical Study. Evolutionary Computation. Vol 20 No 1 Pages 91-133.
• Ollion, Charles and Doncieux, Stéphane (2012). Towards Behavioral Consistency in Neuroevolution. From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Adaptive Behaviour (SAB 2012), Springer, publisher. Pages 1-10.
• Ollion, C. and Pinville, T. and Doncieux, S. (2012). With a little help from selection pressures: evolution of memory in robot controllers. Proc. Alife XIII. Pages 1-8.
• Mouret, J.-B. (2011). Novelty-based Multiobjectivization. New Horizons in Evolutionary Robotics: Extended Contributions from the 2009 EvoDeRob Workshop, Springer, publisher. Pages 139--154.
• Pinville, T. and Koos, S. and Mouret, J-B. and Doncieux, S. (2011). How to Promote Generalisation in Evolutionary Robotics: the ProGAb Approach. GECCO'11: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation ACM, publisher . Pages 259--266
• Mouret, J.-B. and Doncieux, S. and Girard, B. (2010). Importing the Computational Neuroscience Toolbox into Neuro-Evolution---Application to Basal Ganglia. GECCO'10: Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation ACM, publisher . Pages 587--594.
• Doncieux, S. and Mouret, J.-B. (2010). Behavioral diversity measures for Evolutionary Robotics. WCCI 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). Pages 1303--1310.