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Risto Miikkulainen

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Papers indexed

167

Venues

18

Active years

1990–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

167 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026GECCOEvolution of Neural Networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2026GECCOOptimizing Chlorination in Water Distribution Systems via Surrogate-assisted Neuroevolution.Rivaaj Monsia, Daniel Young, Olivier Francon, Risto Miikkulainen
2026GECCOEvolution With Purpose: Hierarchy-Informed Optimization of Whole-Brain Models.Hormoz Shahrzad, Niharika Gajawelli, Kaitlin Maile, Manish Saggar, Risto Miikkulainen
2025CECEffective Regularization Through Evolutionary Loss-Function Metalearning.Santiago Gonzalez, Xin Qiu, Risto Miikkulainen
2025CogSciHow the Stroop Effect Arises from Optimal Response Times in Laterally Connected Self-Organizing Maps.Divya Prabhakaran, Uli Grasemann, Swathi Kiran, Risto Miikkulainen
2025CogSciThe Odyssey of the Fittest: Can Agents Survive and Still Be Good?Dylan Waldner, Risto Miikkulainen
2025GECCOEvolution of Neural Networks.Risto Miikkulainen, Sebastian Risi, David Ha, Yujin Tang
2025GECCOEvolutionary Policy Optimization.Zelal Su Mustafaoglu, Keshav Pingali, Risto Miikkulainen
2025GECCOEVOTER: Evolution of Transparent Explainable Rule sets.Hormoz Shahrzad, Babak Hodjat, Risto Miikkulainen
2025GECCOGPU-Accelerated Rule Evaluation and Evolution.Hormoz Shahrzad, Risto Miikkulainen
2025GECCOSelf-Organizing Models of Brain Wiring: Developmental Programs for Evolving Intelligence.Jamieson Warner, Risto Miikkulainen
2024GECCOEvolution of Neural Networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2024ICLRNeuroBack: Improving CDCL SAT Solving using Graph Neural Networks.Wenxi Wang, Yang Hu, Mohit Tiwari, Sarfraz Khurshid, Kenneth L. McMillan, Risto Miikkulainen
2023AAAIAutoInit: Analytic Signal-Preserving Weight Initialization for Neural Networks.Garrett Bingham, Risto Miikkulainen
2023GECCOEvolution of Neural Networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2023ICMLShortest Edit Path Crossover: A Theory-driven Solution to the Permutation Problem in Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search.Xin Qiu, Risto Miikkulainen
2022AAAIDetecting Misclassification Errors in Neural Networks with a Gaussian Process Model.Xin Qiu, Risto Miikkulainen
2022CogSciConstructing Individualized Computational Models for Dementia Patients.Peggy Fidelman, Uli Grasemann, Claudia Pealoza, Michael Scimeca, Yakeel T. Quiroz, Swathi Kiran, Risto Miikkulainen
2022GECCOEffective mutation rate adaptation through group elite selection.Akarsh Kumar, Bo Liu, Risto Miikkulainen, Peter Stone
2022GECCOSimple genetic operators are universal approximators of probability distributions (and other advantages of expressive encodings).Elliot Meyerson, Xin Qiu, Risto Miikkulainen
2022GECCOEvolution of neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2022GECCOEvolving explainable rule sets.Hormoz Shahrzad, Babak Hodjat, Risto Miikkulainen
2021GECCOOptimizing loss functions through multi-variate taylor polynomial parameterization.Santiago Gonzalez, Risto Miikkulainen
2021GECCORegularized evolutionary population-based training.Jason Zhi Liang, Santiago Gonzalez, Hormoz Shahrzad, Risto Miikkulainen
2021GECCOEvolution of neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2021GECCOEvaluating medical aesthetics treatments through evolved age-estimation models.Risto Miikkulainen, Elliot Meyerson, Xin Qiu, Ujjayant Sinha, Raghav Kumar, Karen Hofmann, Yiyang Matt Yan, Michael Ye, Jingyuan Yang, Damon Caiazza, Stephanie Manson Brown
2021ICLRThe Traveling Observer Model: Multi-task Learning Through Spatial Variable Embeddings.Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen
2021IJCNNImproving Neural Network Learning Through Dual Variable Learning Rates.Elizabeth Liner, Risto Miikkulainen
2020CECImproved Training Speed, Accuracy, and Data Utilization Through Loss Function Optimization.Santiago Gonzalez, Risto Miikkulainen
2020CECA Comparison of the Taguchi Method and Evolutionary optimization in Multivariate Testing.Jingbo Jiang, Diego Legrand, Robert Severn, Risto Miikkulainen
2020CECEvolution of Complex Coordinated Behavior.Padmini Rajagopalan, Kay E. Holekamp, Risto Miikkulainen
2020CECMDEA: Malware Detection with Evolutionary Adversarial Learning.Xiruo Wang, Risto Miikkulainen
2020GECCOEvolutionary optimization of deep learning activation functions.Garrett Bingham, William Macke, Risto Miikkulainen
2020GECCOEffective reinforcement learning through evolutionary surrogate-assisted prescription.Olivier Francon, Santiago Gonzalez, Babak Hodjat, Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen, Xin Qiu, Hormoz Shahrzad
2020GECCOEvolution of neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2020ICLRQuantifying Point-Prediction Uncertainty in Neural Networks via Residual Estimation with an I/O Kernel.Xin Qiu, Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen
2019AAAIDiscretization of Game Space by Environment Attributes.Alexander Braylan, Risto Miikkulainen
2019AAAIEnhancing Evolutionary Conversion Rate Optimization via Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms.Xin Qiu, Risto Miikkulainen
2019CogSciQuantifying the Conceptual Combination Effect on Word Meanings.Nora E. Aguirre-Celis, Risto Miikkulainen
2019GECCOEvolutionary neural AutoML for deep learning.Jason Zhi Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Babak Hodjat, Daniel Fink, Karl Mutch, Risto Miikkulainen
2019GECCOImplementing evolutionary optimization to model neural functional connectivity.Kaitlin Maile, Manish Saggar, Risto Miikkulainen
2019GECCOEvolution of neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2019GECCOEnhanced optimization with composite objectives and novelty pulsation.Hormoz Shahrzad, Babak Hodjat, Camille Doll, Andrei Denissov, Simon Lau, Donn Goodhew, Justin Dyer, Risto Miikkulainen
2019GECCOFunctional generative design of mechanisms with recurrent neural networks and novelty search.Cameron R. Wolfe, Cem Celal Tutum, Risto Miikkulainen
2019IJCNNFaster Training by Selecting Samples Using Embeddings.Santiago Gonzalez, Joshua Landgraf, Risto Miikkulainen
2019RTSSWork-in-Progress: Leveraging the Selfless Driving Model to Reduce Vehicular Network Congestion.Guangli Dai, Pavan Kumar Paluri, Thomas Carmichael, Albert Mo Kim Cheng, Risto Miikkulainen
2018AAAIDynamic Adaptation and Opponent Exploitation in Computer Poker.Xun Li, Risto Miikkulainen
2018AAAISentient Ascend: AI-Based Massively Multivariate Conversion Rate Optimization.Risto Miikkulainen, Neil Iscoe, Aaron Shagrin, Ryan Rapp, Sam Nazari, Patrick McGrath, Cory Schoolland, Elyas Achkar, Myles Brundage, Jeremy Miller, Jonathan Epstein, Gurmeet Lamba
2018GECCOEvolutionary architecture search for deep multitask networks.Jason Zhi Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen
2018GECCOOpponent modeling and exploitation in poker using evolved recurrent neural networks.Xun Li, Risto Miikkulainen
2018GECCOEvolution of neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2018GECCOFunctional generative design: an evolutionary approach to 3D-printing.Cem Celal Tutum, Supawit Chockchowwat, Etienne Vouga, Risto Miikkulainen
2018ICLRBeyond Shared Hierarchies: Deep Multitask Learning through Soft Layer Ordering.Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen
2018ICMLPseudo-task Augmentation: From Deep Multitask Learning to Intratask Sharing-and Back.Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen
2017AAAIEvolving Adaptive Poker Players for Effective Opponent Exploitation.Xun Li, Risto Miikkulainen
2017CogSciFrom Words to Sentences & Back: Characterizing Context-dependent Meaning Representations in the Brain.Nora E. Aguirre-Celis, Manuel Valenzuela-Rendn, Risto Miikkulainen
2017GECCODiscovering evolutionary stepping stones through behavior domination.Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen
2017GECCOEvolution of neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2017GECCOConversion rate optimization through evolutionary computation.Risto Miikkulainen, Neil Iscoe, Aaron Shagrin, Ron Cordell, Sam Nazari, Cory Schoolland, Myles Brundage, Jonathan Epstein, Randy Dean, Gurmeet Lamba
2017GECCOEvolutionary decomposition for 3D printing.Eric A. Yu, Jin Yeom, Cem Celal Tutum, Etienne Vouga, Risto Miikkulainen
2016AAAIReuse of Neural Modules for General Video Game Playing.Alexander Braylan, Mark Hollenbeck, Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen
2016ALIFEEvolving Artificial Language through Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning.Risto Miikkulainen, Xun Li
2016ALIFEDistributed Age-Layered Novelty Search.Risto Miikkulainen, Hormoz Shahrzad, Babak Hodjat
2016CECSurrogate-based evolutionary optimization for friction stir welding.Cem Celal Tutum, Shaayaan Sayed, Risto Miikkulainen
2016GECCOLearning Behavior Characterizations for Novelty Search.Elliot Meyerson, Joel Lehman, Risto Miikkulainen
2016GECCOEvolving Neural Networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2016GECCOEvolving Deep LSTM-based Memory Networks using an Information Maximization Objective.Aditya Rawal, Risto Miikkulainen
2016GECCOEstimating the Advantage of Age-Layering in Evolutionary Algorithms.Hormoz Shahrzad, Babak Hodjat, Risto Miikkulainen
2015AAAIFrame Skip Is a Powerful Parameter for Learning to Play Atari.Alexander Braylan, Mark Hollenbeck, Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen
2015GECCOEvolving Strategies for Social Innovation Games.Erkin Baheci, Riitta Katila, Risto Miikkulainen
2015GECCOEnhancing Divergent Search through Extinction Events.Joel Lehman, Risto Miikkulainen
2015GECCOEvolutionary Bilevel Optimization for Complex Control Tasks.Jason Zhi Liang, Risto Miikkulainen
2015GECCOEvolving Neural Networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2015GECCOSolving Interleaved and Blended Sequential Decision-Making Problems through Modular Neuroevolution.Jacob Schrum, Risto Miikkulainen
2015IJCAIOn the Cross-Domain Reusability of Neural Modules for General Video Game Playing.Alexander Braylan, Mark Hollenbeck, Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen
2015RTSSTradeoffs in Real-Time Robotic Task Design with Neuroevolution Learning for Imprecise Computation.Pei-Chi Huang, Luis Sentis, Joel Lehman, Chien-Liang Fok, Aloysius K. Mok, Risto Miikkulainen
2014ALIFEAdopting Morphology to Multiple Tasks in Evolved Virtual Creatures.Dan Lessin, Don Fussell, Risto Miikkulainen
2014ALIFEEvolving Multimodal Behavior Through Subtask and Switch Neural Networks.Xun Li, Risto Miikkulainen
2014ALIFEThe Evolution of General Intelligence.Padmini Rajagopalan, Kay E. Holekamp, Risto Miikkulainen
2014ALIFEEvolution of Communication in Mate Selection.Aditya Rawal, Janette Boughman, Risto Miikkulainen
2014GECCOOvercoming deception in evolution of cognitive behaviors.Joel Lehman, Risto Miikkulainen
2014GECCOTrading control intelligence for physical intelligence: muscle drives in evolved virtual creatures.Dan Lessin, Don Fussell, Risto Miikkulainen
2014GECCOEvolving neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2014GECCOGeneral intelligence through prolonged evolution of densely connected neural networks.Padmini Rajagopalan, Aditya Rawal, Kay E. Holekamp, Risto Miikkulainen
2014GECCOEvolving multimodal behavior with modular neural networks in Ms. Pac-Man.Jacob Schrum, Risto Miikkulainen
2013FOGAA measure-theoretic analysis of stochastic optimization.Alan J. Lockett, Risto Miikkulainen
2013GECCOEffective diversity maintenance in deceptive domains.Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen
2013GECCOOpen-ended behavioral complexity for evolved virtual creatures.Dan Lessin, Don Fussell, Risto Miikkulainen
2013GECCONeuroannealing: martingale optimization for neural networks.Alan J. Lockett, Risto Miikkulainen
2013GECCOEvolving neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2013IAAIGRADE: Machine Learning Support for Graduate Admissions.Austin Waters, Risto Miikkulainen
2013IJCNNExtended scaled neural predictor for improved branch prediction.Zihao Zhou, Mayank Kejriwal, Risto Miikkulainen
2012ALIFETask decomposition with neuroevolution in extended predator-prey domain.Ashish Jain, Anand Subramoney, Risto Miikkulainen
2012ALIFEEvolution of a Communication Code in Cooperative Tasks.Aditya Rawal, Padmini Rajagopalan, Risto Miikkulainen, Kay E. Holekamp
2012GECCOHyperNEAT-GGP: a hyperNEAT-based atari general game player.Matthew J. Hausknecht, Piyush Khandelwal, Risto Miikkulainen, Peter Stone
2012GECCOAccelerating evolution via egalitarian social learning.Wesley Tansey, Eliana Feasley, Risto Miikkulainen
2012RTSSArchitecture of a cyberphysical avatar.Song Han, Aloysius K. Mok, Jianyong Meng, Yi-Hung Wei, Pei-Chi Huang, Xiuming Zhu, Luis Sentis, Kwan-Suk Kim, Risto Miikkulainen, Jacob Menashe
2011CECCreating intelligent agents through shaping of coevolution.Adam Dziuk, Risto Miikkulainen
2011CECMeasure-theoretic evolutionary annealing.Alan J. Lockett, Risto Miikkulainen
2011CogSciModeling Acute and Compensated Language Disturbance in Schizophrenia.Uli Grasemann, Ralph Hoffman, Risto Miikkulainen
2011GECCOHuman-assisted neuroevolution through shaping, advice and examples.Igor Karpov, Vinod K. Valsalam, Risto Miikkulainen
2011GECCOReal-space evolutionary annealing.Alan J. Lockett, Risto Miikkulainen
2011GECCOEvolving neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2011SATLearning Polarity from Structure in SAT.Bryan Silverthorn, Risto Miikkulainen
2010AAAILatent Class Models for Algorithm Portfolio Methods.Bryan Silverthorn, Risto Miikkulainen
2010GECCOEvolving neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2010GECCOEmergence of competitive and cooperative behavior using coevolution.Padmini Rajagopalan, Aditya Rawal, Risto Miikkulainen
2010GECCOEvolving agent behavior in multiobjective domains using fitness-based shaping.Jacob Schrum, Risto Miikkulainen
2009GECCOEvolving neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen, Kenneth O. Stanley
2009GECCOEvolving symmetric and modular neural networks for distributed control.Vinod K. Valsalam, Risto Miikkulainen
2008GECCOEvolving neural networks for fractured domains.Nate Kohl, Risto Miikkulainen
2008GECCOEvolving neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen, Kenneth O. Stanley
2008GECCOModular neuroevolution for multilegged locomotion.Vinod K. Valsalam, Risto Miikkulainen
2008ICMLOnline kernel selection for Bayesian reinforcement learning.Joseph Reisinger, Peter Stone, Risto Miikkulainen
2007AAAIAcquiring Visibly Intelligent Behavior with Example-Guided Neuroevolution.Bobby D. Bryant, Risto Miikkulainen
2007GECCOEvolving explicit opponent models in game playing.Alan J. Lockett, Charles L. Chen, Risto Miikkulainen
2007GECCOEvolving neural networks.Risto Miikkulainen
2007GECCOAcquiring evolvability through adaptive representations.Joseph Reisinger, Risto Miikkulainen
2007IJCNNSystem Identification for the Hodgkin-Huxley Model using Artificial Neural Networks.Manish Saggar, Tekin Merili, Sari Andoni, Risto Miikkulainen
2006AAAIReal-Time Evolution of Neural Networks in the NERO Video Game.Kenneth O. Stanley, Bobby D. Bryant, Igor Karpov, Risto Miikkulainen
2006AAAIReal-Time Interactive Learning in the NERO Video Game.Kenneth O. Stanley, Igor Karpov, Risto Miikkulainen, Aliza Gold
2006CECEvolving Stochastic Controller Networks for Intelligent Game Agents.Bobby D. Bryant, Risto Miikkulainen
2006GECCOEvolving a real-world vehicle warning system.Nate Kohl, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen, Michael E. Samples, Rini Sherony
2006GECCOCoevolution of neural networks using a layered pareto archive.German A. Monroy, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen
2006GECCOSelecting for evolvable representations.Joseph Reisinger, Risto Miikkulainen
2006RoboCupDetecting Motion in the Environment with a Moving Quadruped Robot.Peggy Fidelman, Thayne R. Coffman, Risto Miikkulainen
2005GECCOEfficient credit assignment through evaluation function decomposition.Adrian K. Agogino, Kagan Tumer, Risto Miikkulainen
2005GECCOEffective image compression using evolved wavelets.Uli Grasemann, Risto Miikkulainen
2005GECCOEvolving neural network ensembles for control problems.David Pardoe, Michael S. Ryoo, Risto Miikkulainen
2005GECCOTowards an empirical measure of evolvability.Joseph Reisinger, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen
2005GECCOLearning basic navigation for personal satellite assistant using neuroevolution.Yiu-Fai Sit, Risto Miikkulainen
2005GECCONeuroevolution of an automobile crash warning system.Kenneth O. Stanley, Nate Kohl, Rini Sherony, Risto Miikkulainen
2005GECCOConstructing good learners using evolved pattern generators.Vinod K. Valsalam, James A. Bednar, Risto Miikkulainen
2005GECCOAutomatic feature selection in neuroevolution.Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen, Nate Kohl
2004GECCOTransfer of Neuroevolved Controllers in Unstable Domains.Faustino J. Gomez, Risto Miikkulainen
2004GECCOEvolving Wavelets Using a Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithm and Lifting.Uli Grasemann, Risto Miikkulainen
2004GECCOEvolving Reusable Neural Modules.Joseph Reisinger, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen
2004GECCOEvolving a Roving Eye for Go.Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen
2003CECNeuroevolution for adaptive teams.Bobby D. Bryant, Risto Miikkulainen
2003CECEvolving adaptive neural networks with and without adaptive synapses.Kenneth O. Stanley, Bobby D. Bryant, Risto Miikkulainen
2003GECCOActive Guidance for a Finless Rocket Using Neuroevolution.Faustino J. Gomez, Risto Miikkulainen
2003GECCOEvolving Keepaway Soccer Players through Task Decomposition.Shimon Whiteson, Nate Kohl, Risto Miikkulainen, Peter Stone
2003ICMLUtilizing Domain Knowledge in Neuroevolution.James Fan, Raymond Lau, Risto Miikkulainen
2002CECIntelligent process control utilising symbiotic memetic neuro-evolution.Alex v. E. Conradie, Risto Miikkulainen, Chris Aldrich
2002CECNumerical optimization with neuroevolution.Brian Greer, Henri Hakonen, Risto Lahdelma, Risto Miikkulainen
2002CECEfficient evolution of neural network topologies.Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen
2002GECCOEugenic Evolution Utilizing A Domain Model.Matthew Alden, Aard-Jan van Kesteren, Risto Miikkulainen
2002GECCOAdaptive Control Utilising Neural Swarming.Alex v. E. Conradie, Risto Miikkulainen, Christiaan Aldrich
2002GECCOContinual Coevolution Through Complexification.Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen
2002GECCOEfficient Reinforcement Learning Through Evolving Neural Network Topologies.Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen
2000AAAISelf-Organization of Innate Face Preferences: Could Genetics Be Expressed through Learning?James A. Bednar, Risto Miikkulainen
2000AAAIA Self-Organizing Neural Network for Contour Integration through Synchronized Firing.Yoonsuck Choe, Risto Miikkulainen
2000GECCOEugenic Neuro-Evolution for Reinforcement Learning.Daniel Polani, Risto Miikkulainen
1999IJCAISolving Non-Markovian Control Tasks with Neuro-Evolution.Faustino J. Gomez, Risto Miikkulainen
1999IJCAIConfidence Based Dual Reinforcement Q-Routing: An adaptive online network routing algorithm.Shailesh Kumar, Risto Miikkulainen
1999IJCAISARDSRN: A Neural Network Shift-Reduce Parser.Marshall R. Mayberry, Risto Miikkulainen
1998ICONIPA Self-Organizing Neural Network Model of the Primary Visual Cortex.Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, Joseph Sirosh
1997IJCAISelf-Organization and Segmentation with Laterally Connected Spiking Neurons.Yoonsuck Choe, Risto Miikkulainen
1996ICMLOn-Line Adaptation of a Signal Predistorter through Dual Reinforcement Learning.Patrick Goetz, Shailesh Kumar, Risto Miikkulainen
1995ICMLVisualizing High-Dimensional Structure with the Incremental Grid Growing Neural Network.Justine Blackmore, Risto Miikkulainen
1995ICMLEfficient Learning from Delayed Rewards through Symbiotic Evolution.David E. Moriarty, Risto Miikkulainen
1994AAAIParsing Embedded Clauses with Distributed Neural Networks.Risto Miikkulainen, Dennis Bijwaard
1994AAAIThe Capacity of Convergence-Zone Episodic Memory.Mark Moll, Risto Miikkulainen, Jonathan Abbey
1994AAAIEvolving Neural Networks to Focus Minimax Search.David E. Moriarty, Risto Miikkulainen
1994ICECImproving Game-Tree Search with Evolutionary Neural Networks.David E. Moriarty, Risto Miikkulainen
1994ICTAIIntegrated Connectionist Models: Building AI Systems on Subsymbolic Foundations.Risto Miikkulainen
1990COLINGA PDP Architecture For Processing Sentences With Relative Clauses.Risto Miikkulainen