Evolution Strategies for Evolving Artificial Neural Networks in an Arcade Game

Cooperative Co-Evolving Neural Networks for Robosoccer Simulation

Evolving Complex Othello Strategies Using Marker-based Genetic Encoding of Neural Networks

A system based on artiicial evolution of neural networks for developing new game playing strategies is presented. The system uses marker-based genes to encode nodes in a neural network. The game-playing networks were forced to evolve sophisticated strategies in Othello to compete rst with a random mover and then with an-search program. Without any direction, the networks discovered rst the stan...

Neuro-Evolution Through Augmenting Topologies Applied To Evolving Neural Networks To Play Othello

Many different approaches to game playing have been suggested including alpha-beta search, temporal difference learning, genetic algorithms, and coevolution. Here, a powerful new algorithm for neuroevolution, Neuro-Evolution for Augmenting Topologies (NEAT), is adapted to the game playing domain. Evolution and coevolution were used to try and develop neural networks capable of defeating an alph...

Evolving a Neural Network Location Evaluator to Play Ms. Pac-Man

Ms. Pac-Man is a challenging, classic arcade game with a certain cult status. This paper reports attempts to evolve a Pac-Man player, where the control algorithm uses a neural network to evaluate the possible next moves. The evolved neural network takes a handcrafted feature vector based on a candidate maze location as input, and produces a score for that location as output. Results are reporte...

Using Neural Networks for Strategy Selection in Real-Time Strategy Games

Video games continue to grow in importance as a platform for Artificial Intelligence (AI) research since they offer a rich virtual environment without the noise present in the real world. In this paper, a simulated ship combat game is used as an environment for evolving neural network controlled ship combat strategies. Domain knowledge is used as input to the Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) t...