Hands-On Neuroevolution with Python

Working environment setup

The working environment for the simple maze-solving experiment can be set up with the following commands entered in your terminal application of choice:

$ conda create --name maze_objective_neat python=3.5$ conda activate maze_objective_neat$ pip install neat-python==0.92 $ conda install matplotlib$ conda install graphviz$ conda install python-graphviz

These commands create and activate a maze_objective_neat virtual environment with Python 3.5. After that, the NEAT-Python library with version 0.92 was installed, along with other dependencies used by our visualization utilities.

After that, we are ready to start with the implementation of the experiment runner.