The NEAT Algorithm is Neat

[ANTIMONcom]

Fun fact: the python-neat implementation is not limited to evolving neural networks. In my master i used it but with my own custom genome and genes. It is a very general implementation, and the genes can in principal anything as long as you are willing to code some custome gene classes

[ravishankar]

This video is gonna be viral in this decade.

[chris-graham]

Box is just a wrapper which applies bounds to the input. It stops silly user errors like [996, 997, 991, 991.2] would output [1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0]

[python]

Just when I was trying to code NEAT from the paper, your video comes out!!

[kylenwilliams]

Are we not gonna talk about the 'closedAI' comment at 4:45 lol

[madeautonomous]

I remember NEAT from Sethbling's Mar I/O video!

[joshualaferriere]

I love how you provided 2 examples to run through. Great teaching!

[janjunker]

You earned a sub, anyone who does anything about NEAT or something similar earns it

[ahmadayazamin]

Yay, a new video! That's quite NEAT! Also, how do you actually read research papers? By that, I mean how do you go about understanding it and translating it into code? I usually don't understand what goes on until I read a reference implementation, which is not always available.

[joegriffith]

at 19:50 you're manipulating the default genome which is how each genome starts. You're genomes may start with 0 hidden nodes, but it will evolve more hidden neurons if necessary.

[ramfan]

You do great work Sentdex! I really like your channel, you provide great explanation on a variety of coding topics. Keep up the great work!

[stepsteveX]

It is great that you educate people on NEAT!

You said that you would improve this implementation by building on top of it. Have you thought how?

You should look at doing a video on the evolution of CPPNs using NEAT.. a system called HyperNEAT! Super interesting and useful!

[greatsaid]

only legends make 2G swap partition when they have 251GB ram :D

[Djellowman]

imo, for lots of environments/problems, it's a lot faster writing your own bot rather than setting NEAT with an interface, the config file, changing your game/problem code to accommodate the algo... and the documentation is very bad. I struggled a bit to get it working.

[pieronexus]

Almost at a million subs, nice!!
Also, others might have asked this, but can you give any provision when the GTA 5 self driving series will continue? If it will continue.

[ayush]

this video is the final push towards 1 millions subs.

[karlspencer]

It is really awesom to make prototypes on Python.
Thanks for introducing me to Neat!

[prabhat_]

U r very close to 1M subscribers, , hope you May hit it soon

[deadcrypt]

NEAT is the best, awesome to see you covering it

[elginbeloy]

Could you do a video covering the implementation of Differential Architecture Search (DARTS)? It is another topology discovery algorithm but it uses annealing to make the prediction function differential w.r.t the architecture then uses gradient descent for optimization.