?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Forcing+neurocontrollers+to+exploit+sensory+symmetry+through+hard-wired+modularity+in+the+game+of+Cellz&rft.creator=Togelius%2C+Julian&rft.creator=Lucas%2C+Simon+M.&rft.subject=Computational+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.description=Several+attempts+have+been+made+in+the+past+to+construct+encoding+schemes+that+allow+modularity++to+emerge+in+evolving+systems%2C+but+success+is+limited.++We+believe+that+in+order+to+create+successful+and+scalable+encodings+for+emerging+modularity%2C+we+first+need+to+explore+the+benefits+of+different++types+of+modularity+by+hard-wiring+these+into+evolvable+systems.+In+this+paper+we+explore+different+ways+of+exploiting+sensory+symmetry+inherent+in+the+agent+in+the+simple+game+Cellz+by+evolving+symmetrically+identical+modules.+It+is+concluded+that+significant+increases+in+both+speed+of+evolution+and+final+fitness+can+be+achieved+relative+to+monolithic++controllers.+Furthermore%2C+we+show+that+a+simple+function+approximation+task+that+exhibits+sensory+symmetry+can+be+used+as+a+quick+approximate+measure+of+the+utility+of+an+encoding+scheme+for+the+more+complex+game-playing+task.&rft.contributor=Lucas%2C+Simon+M.&rft.contributor=Kendall%2C+Graham&rft.date=2005&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4103%2F1%2FTogelius2005Forcing.pdf&rft.identifier=++Togelius%2C+Julian+and+Lucas%2C+Simon+M.++(2005)+Forcing+neurocontrollers+to+exploit+sensory+symmetry+through+hard-wired+modularity+in+the+game+of+Cellz.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4103%2F