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Neural Network Quine

📅 2018
technical research breakthrough
🔵 Rare

📖 Description

Neural Network Quine Oscar Chang1and Hod Lipson1 1Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 oscar.chang, [email address redacted] Abstract Self-replication is a key aspect of biological life that has been largely overlooked in Arti?cial Intelligence systems. Here we describe how to build and train self-replicating neural net- works. The network replicates itself by learning to output its own weights. The network is designed using a loss func- tion that can be optimized with either gradient-based or non- gradient-based methods. We also describe a method we call regeneration to train the network without explicit optimiza- tion, by injecting the network with predictions of its own pa- rameters. The best solution for a self-replicating network was found by alternating between regeneration and optimization steps. Finally, we describe a design for a self-replicating neu- ral network that can solve an auxiliary task such as MNIST image classi?cation. We observe that th...

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