NEATEST: Evolving Neural Networks Through Augmenting Topologies with Evolution Strategy Training

It is NEAT but the weights are trained with Natural Evolution Strategy and the weights are shared across genomes.

Requirements

numpy
cloudpickle

Install

pip install nesneat

Optional

matplotlib # To draw networks
mpi4py # For parallelization
gym # For examples

Usage

Check examples

PYTHONPATH="$(pwd):$PYTHONPATH" python examples/cartpole.py
# Or in parallel
PYTHONPATH="$(pwd):$PYTHONPATH" mpirun -np 2 python examples/cartpole.py

GitHub

https://github.com/goktug97/NEATEST