mansurpro / neat-python

Python implementation of the NEAT neuroevolution algorithm

About

NEAT (NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies) is a method developed by Kenneth O. Stanley for evolving arbitrary neural networks. This project is a pure-Python implementation of NEAT with no dependencies beyond the standard library. It was forked from the excellent project by @MattKallada.

For further information regarding general concepts and theory, please see the Selected Publications on Stanley's page at the University of Central Florida (now somewhat dated), or the publications page of his current website.

neat-python is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license. It is currently only supported on Python 3.6 through 3.11, and pypy3.

Getting Started

If you want to try neat-python, please check out the repository, start playing with the examples (examples/xor is a good place to start) and then try creating your own experiment.

The documentation is available on Read The Docs.

Citing

Here are APA and Bibtex entries you can use to cite this project in a publication. The listed authors are the originators and/or maintainers of all iterations of the project up to this point. If you have contributed and would like your name added to the citation, please submit an issue or email [email protected].

APA

McIntyre, A., Kallada, M., Miguel, C. G., Feher de Silva, C., & Netto, M. L. neat-python [Computer software]

Bibtex

@software{McIntyre_neat-python,
author = {McIntyre, Alan and Kallada, Matt and Miguel, Cesar G. and Feher de Silva, Carolina and Netto, Marcio Lobo},
title = {{neat-python}}
}

Thank you!

Many thanks to the folks who have cited this repository in their own work.