Early-Stopping Thresholds for ES-HyperNEAT: A Data-Driven Approach from Fitness Dynamics
Most hyperparameter configurations for Evolvable-Substrate HyperNEAT (ES-HyperNEAT) produce networks that stagnate at random-guessing performance, wasting computational resources. We frame early stopping as binary classification on early fitness trajectories: for each trial, we compute the cumulative median of best-per...