Connectionists: New paper on why modules evolve, and how to evolve modular neural networks

[Yuille, Alan]

My group's work on compositional models might be of interest. An example appears on Archive in the new International Conference on Learning Representations -- see http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3560 .
Although this work was not neuronally motivated it seems to have connections to Les Valiant's neuroidal models -- like JOIN and LINK -- which seem to address these issues and may be relevant to your discussions.

Best,
Alan
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Subject: Re: Connectionists: New paper on why modules evolve, and how to evolve modular neural networks

Hello Christos,

Rafael Calabretta keeps a list of papers on the subject of the evolution of modularity.

http://gral.ip.rm.cnr.it/rcalabretta/modularity.html

I like your idea of a wiki too. It could be a great resource for the field. We could even start fleshing out this page, which is currently nearly empty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity_(biology)

PS. Thanks to everyone who has participated in the discussion of our paper The Evolutionary Origins of Modularity. Some of the papers that have been mentioned we reference in our paper, and others are new to us. We have enjoyed learning about the various different studies and opinions on this subject, and look forward to more great work to come.


Best regards,
Jeff Clune

Assistant Professor
Computer Science
University of Wyoming
jeffclune at uwyo.edu<mailto:jeffclune at uwyo.edu>
jeffclune.com

On Mar 29, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Christos Dimitrakakis <christos.dimitrakakis at gmail.com<mailto:christos.dimitrakakis at gmail.com>> wrote:

Dear all,

Is there no survey or taxonomy that discusses this line of work in one
place?
If not, I have a suggestion. Why not start up a wiki to begin with? That
would also be of tremendous aid to any newcomers.

Best,
Christos

--
Dr. Christos Dimitrakakis
http://lia.epfl.ch/People/dimitrak/


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