Evolving Neural Networks

A tutorial on evolutionary algorithms

For the past decade, deep learning has dominated the machine learning landscape, often to the exclusion of other techniques. As a data scientist, it’s important to have a variety of tools at your disposal, and one class of techniques that I feel is too-often overlooked is evolutionary algorithms. It may be a little self-indulgent to say this (myself being an intermediary product of a long-running evolutionary algorithm), but I find the evolutionary technique of design wonderful and in many cases more pragmatic than…