<p>This thesis presents a further development of Neuroevolution of Augmenting topologies(NEAT)[21]. The author augments NEAT by parallelizing the fitness evaluation of the phenotypes enabling the method to be utilized on highly complex fitness evaluations by running it on a cluster. This augmented version of NEAT is then applied to the inherently complex problem of the Go board game, by using the Gnugo (See www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/.) software package as a fitness evaluator. The performance increase also enables the author to follow up on the predictions of Kenneth Stanleys previous discussions that co-evolution will help evolve a more general Go player, rather than the predicted evolved behaviour of specializing in beating Gnugo.</p>
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:ntnu-9527 |
Date | January 2007 |
Creators | Mathisen, Bjørn Magnus |
Publisher | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, Institutt for datateknikk og informasjonsvitenskap |
Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Student thesis, text |
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