Jason Zhi Liang
Ph.D. Alumni, Collaborator
Jason's work focuses on neuroevolution, deep learning, evolutionary algorithms, and computer vision. His current and past research interests include using evolutionary heuristics to design better deep neural architectures and bilevel neuroevolution.
Bilevel Optimization of the Helicopter Hovering Control TaskJason Zhi Liang and Risto Miikkulainen2015
Asynchronous Evolution of Deep Neural Network Architectures Jason Liang, Hormoz Shahrzad, Risto Miikkulainen Applied Soft Computing, 152:111209, 2024. Also arXiv:2308:04102. 2024

Evolving Deep Neural Networks Risto Miikkulainen, Jason Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Aditya Rawal, Dan Fink, Olivier Francon, Bala Raju... To Appear In R. Kozma, C. Alippi, Y. Choe, and F. Morabito, editors, Artificial Intelligence in t... 2023

Regularized Evolutionary Population-Based Training Jason Liang, Santiago Gonzalez, Hormoz Shahrzad, and Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 323-331, 2021. 2021

Evolving Deep Neural Networks Risto Miikkulainen, Jason Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Aditya Rawal, Dan Fink, Olivier Francon, Bala Raju... In Robert Kozma, Cesare Alippi, Yoonsuck Choe, and Francesco Carlo Morabito, editors, Artificial ... 2019

Evolutionary Neural AutoML for Deep Learning Jason Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Babak Hodjat, Dan Fink, Karl Mutch, and Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2019), 401–409... 2019

Evolutionary Architecture Search For Deep Multitask Networks Jason Liang, Elliot Meyerson, and Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 466–473, Kyo... 2018

Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for Deep Learning Jason Zhi Liang PhD Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 2317 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712, December 2018. 2018

{UT} {A}ustin {V}illa: {R}obo{C}up 2015 3{D} Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenges Champions Patrick MacAlpine and Josiah Hanna and Jason Liang and Peter Stone In Luis Almeida and Jianmin Ji and Gerald Steinbauer and Sean Luke, editors, {R}obo{C}up-2015: Ro... 2016

Evolutionary Bilevel Optimization for Complex Control Tasks Jason Zhi Liang, Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2015), 871–878... 2015

Evolutionary Bilevel Optimization for Complex Control Problems and Blackbox Function Optimization Jason Zhi Liang Masters Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2... 2015