Evolvability of Minimally Cognitive Agents
Matthew Setzler, Eduardo J. Izquierdo · 2016
This work investigates evolvability of continuous-time recurrent neural networks to support the behavior of model-agents subject to fitness criteria that changes over the evolutionary timescale. A population of agents is alternatingly evolved to perform two tasks with inverted fitness awards. Evidence of evolvability is reported; it is shown that the population locates a region of meta-fitness in the landscape in which sub-regions of optimality for each task are easily accessible from one another.