ICML 2019 Tutorial: Recent Advances in Population-Based Search for Deep Neural Networks

Recent Advances in Population-Based Search for Deep Neural Networks: Quality Diversity, Indirect Encodings, and Open-Ended Algorithms. Jeff Clune · Joel Lehman · Kenneth Stanley We will cover new, exciting, unconventional techniques for improving population-based search. These ideas are already enabling us to solve hard problems. They also hold great promise for further advancing machine learning, including deep neural networks. Major topics covered include (1) explicitly searching for behavioral diversit