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So genetic programming, but for NN's? Hasn't that been done?

• qiemem 9y ago
  GP for NNs has, but this isn't GP; "self-reproduction" (as in the original title) here means that the neural network is learning to output a copy of itself. In other words, the NN is learning to be a quine (as indicated by the current title). This is a very different than just applying genetic programming to NNs. In GP, you're updating the NN (or whatever) by copying it with mutations/recombinations. Here, the NN itself is learning to create a copy of itself. The fact that they manage to also train to the network to simultaneously perform somewhat complicated tasks is super crazy.