Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies

NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) is a genetic algorithm (GA) for generating evolving artificial neural networks (a neuroevolution technique) developed by Kenneth Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen in 2002 while at The University of Texas at Austin. It alters both the weighting parameters and structures of networks, attempting to find a balance between the fitness of evolved solutions and their diversity.

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