Develop the way that learns or obtains a result

A candidate can describe how to obtain a controller instead of describing only its final weights. For architecture search, construct the proposed network, initialize and train it under the declared procedure, then use its resulting behavior and cost to judge the architecture. Chapter 10 develops this whole, including reusable modules and task-specific combinations. Chapter 11 changes other obtaining contributions, such as loss, activation, training-data use and learning code. Comparing untrained architectures does not substitute for the training whose result the receiving question needs. A shortened trial or surrogate is useful only at the conclusions its relation to that full application supports.

State what one candidate may inherit. Continuing from trained weights asks whether that continuation works; initializing afresh asks whether the proposed obtaining way works from that start. For a controller that learns during a lifetime, execute that learning across the specified experiences before assessing its result. Reset, permitted feedback, memory and inherited initial state are parts of the construction. Chapter 12 develops evolutionary/RL combinations, learnability and plasticity. In the primary Baldwin-effect meta-learning construction, lifetime learning affects fitness while the evolved starting conditions are what reproduction preserves. The update or learner remains an actual operation to implement or obtain, not a label attached to a successful final network.

These alternatives can also exchange useful material. A population can provide experiences for a gradient learner; an improved learner can return a policy to the population. The evolution-guided policy-gradient construction supplies that specific exchange. Preserve how experiences are collected, which parameters are updated and how a returned policy enters further comparison. Copying a score between the two procedures would not supply the exchanged experience or behavior. C.40:4.7 keeps the candidate way, its real application and the receiving result connected across these cases.