Title
Lamarckian neuroevolution for visual control in the quake II environment
Abstract
A combination of backpropagation and neuroevolution is used to train a neural network visual controller for agents in the Quake II environment. The agents must learn to shoot an enemy opponent in a semi-visually complex environment using only raw visual inputs. A comparison is made between using normal neuroevolution and using neuroevolution combined with backpropagation for Lamarckian adaptation. The supervised backpropagation imitates a handcoded controller that uses non-visual inputs. Results show that using backpropagation in combination with neuroevolution trains the visual neural network controller much faster and more successfully.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/CEC.2009.4983272
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
quake ii environment,lamarckian neuroevolution,raw visual input,handcoded controller,semi-visually complex environment,neural network,visual controller,neuroevolution train,supervised backpropagation,normal neuroevolution,visual neural network controller,gray scale,backpropagation,computational modeling,neural networks,visualization,computer science,robots,artificial neural networks,games
Control theory,Visualization,Computer science,Quake (series),Artificial intelligence,Neural network controller,Backpropagation,Artificial neural network,Neuroevolution,Machine learning,Visual control
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
14
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matt Parker1567.28
Bobby D. Bryant2586.70