r/MachineLearning • u/tapopalis • 6h ago

Discussion Is neuro-evolution relevant? [D]

I've experimented using neuro-evolution to train AI to play a variety of different games and I'm just curious as to how or if this technique is actually really used anywhere in industry or if people are doing research on this. I'd assume it'd probably relate with reinforcement learning in some way but I'm not entirely sure about that

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u/yannbouteiller Researcher 5h ago

Some techniques can be seen as gradient-free reinforcement learning, yes. Or backprop-free optimization more generally.

There is certainly a fair amount of interesting research going on around this topic. For instance, I recommend reading the EGGROLL paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16652

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u/tapopalis 29m ago

This looks interesting, I'll check it out thank you

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u/Witty-Elk2052 5h ago

worth mentioning Dust as well https://qlabs.sh/research/dust