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Re:Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning by ced on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:02PM (#13440284)
Do you have any interesting material on this? Where's a good in-depth analysis of blackboard systems' pros and cons?
Re:Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning by randcraw on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:53PM (#13440558)
I'd start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_system

I'm not up-to-date, but I haven't heard of new work on blackboards or federated rule-based systems for maybe 20 years now, after expert systems grew increasingly probabilistic (and procrustean), and BBSes based on binary rules showed little sign of escaping the classic brittleness of RBSes.

The wiki article mentions 'Bayesian Blackboard' systems. Maybe they had greater success?

Re:Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning by joshmarlow on Thursday January 19, 2017 @07:38PM (#13440819)
BBS systems also interest me quite a bit. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIDA_(cognitive_architecture). It's based on a Global Workspace model (conceptually similar to a Black Board System). You can find papers on LIDA online (including one or two from the references on the wiki page). If you find anything particularly interesting, feel free to share!