Welcome to the Neural Networks Research Group web site.
The group is directed by Prof. Risto Miikkulainen and is located at the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Neural Networks Best-Paper Award
11/22/2024
Neural Networks, the official journal of the International Neural Network Society, selects one paper each year for the Best-Paper Award: for 2022, that paper is Bingham and Miikkulainen's Discovering parametric activation functions. The paper was part of Garrett's dissertation; it shows how activation functions can be customized for deep learning architectures and tasks through a combination of evolution and gradient descent. The award will be presented at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2025) in July 2025.