Up-North-Coding / NEAT

An implementation of the NEAT and HyperNEAT Neural Network Algorithms, with built-in support for Interactive Computation and WASM for in-browser evolution

Goals

First and foremost, this library is meant to make NEAT a more accessible algorithm to use. There are currently many unmaintained libraries of varying levels of difficulty and documentation - this is a library that looks to take many lessons learned from many libraries to make a better one with first class support for modern visualization techniques, distributed computing (via WASM support in browsers), and interactive computation.

Credits

The initial NEAT implementation is heavily inspired by the excellent work done in @alenaksu/neatjs -- I highly recommend checking out the demo at https://alenaksu.github.io/neatjs/. The core of this library is a re-implementation of that NEAT library in ES6 JavaScript, as TypeScript has a high learning curve and the goal of this library is to be simple to use.

Features Implemented

• Core NEAT Functionality
• Compositional Pattern Producing Networks
• HyperNEAT
• Interactive Computation Framework
• WASM support (perhaps in a different library as a monkey patch?)

References

• NEAT Home Page