Knowledge-Based Systems

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The letters A, B, C, and D represent hidden neurons with specific func-

tions. When we cross over the parents, the resulting offspring will be

missing some of the functionality present in the parents. There are some

proposed solutions to the competing convention problem. However,

these solutions generally involve simplifying assumptions about the to-

pology and layers of the networks, and are computationally expensive;

hence, they cannot be applied to the topology-evolving neural net-

work.

Code bloat3. : Code bloat is a problem in NE methods that results from a

genome increasing in size ...