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Hormoz Shahrzad
Ph.D. Student
Hormoz has worked on many topics in evolutionary computation, both in theory and practice. He's masters thesis focused on BLADE, a method for automatically focusing evolutionary search to the most promising part of the genome, where the search is distributed over multiple hosts.
Publications
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Asynchronous Evolution of Deep Neural Network Architectures Jason Liang, Hormoz Shahrzad, Risto Miikkulainen Applied Soft Computing, 152:111209, 2024. Also arXiv:2308:04102. 2024
Domain-Independent Lifelong Problem Solving through Distributed Alife Actors Babak Hodjat, Hormoz Shahrzad, and Risto Miikkulainen Artificial Life, 30:359-276, 2024. 2024
GPU-Accelerated Rule Evaluation and Evolution Hormoz Shahrzad and Risto Miikkulainen arXiv:2406.01821, 2024. 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
Accelerating Evolution Through Gene Masking and Distributed Search Hormoz Shahrzad and Risto Miikkulainen To Appear In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 972-980, 2... 2023
Accelerating Evolution Through Gene Masking and Distributed Search Hormoz Shahrzad Masters Thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 202... 2023
DIAS: A Domain-Independent Alife-Based Problem-Solving System Babak Hodjat, Hormoz Shahrzad, Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Artificial Life, 2022. 2022
Evolution of Transparent Explainable Rule-sets Hormoz Shahrzad, Babak Hodjat, and Risto Miikkulainen arXiv:2204.10438, 2022. 2022
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
Enhanced Optimization with Composite Objectives and Novelty Pulsation Hormoz Shahrzad, Babak Hodjat, Camille Dolle, Andrei Denissov, Simon Lau, Donn Goodhew, Justin Dyer,... To Appear In Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XVII, 2020. Springer, New York. 2020
Effective Reinforcement Learning through Evolutionary Surrogate-Assisted Prescription Olivier Francon, Santiago Gonzalez, Babak Hodjat, Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen, Xin Qiu, Horm... In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2020), 2020. 2020
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
PRETSL: Distributed Probabilistic Rule Evolution for Time-Series Classification Babak Hodjat, Hormoz Shahrzad, Risto Miikkulainen, Lawrence Murray, and Chris Holmes In Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XIV, New York, 2018. Springer. 2018
Enhanced Optimization with Composite Objectives and Novelty Selection Hormoz Shahrzad, Daniel Fink and Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, Tokyo, Japan, 2018. 2018
How to Select a Winner in Evolutionary Optimization? Risto Miikkulainen, Hormoz Shahrzad, Nigel Duffy, and Phil Long In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence, 2017. IEEE. 2017
Estimating the Advantage of Age-Layering in Evolutionary Algorithms Hormoz Shahrzad, Babak Hodjat, and Risto Miikkulainen To Appear In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2016, Denv... 2016
Distributed Age-Layered Novelty Search Babak Hodjat, Hormoz Shahrzad, and Risto Miikkulainen To Appear In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulatio... 2016
nPool: Massively Distributed Simultaneous Evolution and Cross-Validation in EC-Star Babak Hodjat, Hormoz Shahrzad In Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XIII, 2016. Springer, Cham. 2016
Tackling the Boolean Multiplexer Function Using a Highly Distributed Genetic Programming System Hormoz Shahrzad, Babak Hodjat In Riolo, R., Worzel, W., Kotanchek, M., editors, Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XII... 2015
Maintenance of a Long Running Distributed Genetic Programming System for Solving Problems Requiring Big Data Babak Hodjat, Erik Hemberg, Hormoz Shahrzad, Una-May O’Reilly In Riolo, R., Moore, J., Kotanchek, M., editors, Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XI, ... 2014
Learning Decision Lists with Lags for Physiological Time Series Erik Hemberg, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Prashan Wanigasekara, Hormoz Shahrzad, Babak Hodjat, Una-May O'... In Workshop on Data Mining for Medicine and Healthcare at the 14th SIAM International Conference ... 2014
Introducing an Age-Varying Fitness Estimation Function Babak Hodjat, Hormoz Shahrzad In Riolo, R., Vladislavleva, E., Ritchie, M., Moore, J., editors, Genetic Programming Theory and ... 2013
Areas of Interest
Evolutionary Computation Neuroevolution Theory of Evolutionary Computation Game Playing Applications
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