Evolutionary Deep Intelligence

Deep learning has shown considerable promise in recent years, producing tremendous results and significantly improving the accuracy of a variety of challenging problems when compared to other machine learning methods. However, they require high performance computing systems (such as supercomputer clusters and GPU arrays) due to their highly complex and large computational architectures. Additionally, deep neural networks require machine learning experts to delicately design and fine-tune the large, complex architectures. This issue of complexity has increased greatly over time, driven by the demand for increasingly deeper and larger networks to boost cognitive accuracy. As such, it has become near impossible to take advantage of such powerful yet complex deep neural networks in scenarios where computational and energy resources are scarce, such as in embedded systems, as well as increasingly more difficult to hand-craft their architectures.