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Re:The quest to evolve neural networks through evolutionary ... by jhj on Monday October 30, 2017 @01:03AM (#15583188)
Minima/maxima in high-dimensional spaces are not much of an issue; the bigger issue are saddle points.

cf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.2572.pdf

This is presuming that the problem has a continuous formulation anyways.

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Re:The quest to evolve neural networks through evolutionary ... by pavelchristof on Monday October 30, 2017 @04:47AM (#15583727)
Saddle points are not much of an issue too: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07406
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