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Iaroslav Omelianenko
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Iaroslav Omelianenko occupied the position of CTO and research director for more than a decade. He is an active member of the research community and has published several research papers at arXiv, ResearchGate, Preprints, and more. He started working with applied machine learning by developing autonomous agents for mobile games more than a decade ago. For the last 5 years, he has actively participated in research related to applying deep machine learning methods for authentication, personal traits recognition, cooperative robotics, synthetic intelligence, and more. He is an active software developer and creates open source neuroevolution algorithm implementations in the Go language.
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Objective function for a double-pole balancing experiment

The objective function for this problem is similar to the objective function defined earlier for the single-pole balancing problem. It is given by the following equations:

In these equations, is the expected number of time steps specified in the configuration of the experiment (100,000), and is the actual number of time steps during which the controller was able to maintain a stable state of the pole balancer within the specified limits.

We use logarithmic scales because most of the trials fail in the first several 100 steps, but we are testing against 100,000 steps. With a logarithmic scale, we have a better distribution of fitness scores, even compared with a small number of steps in failed trials.

The first of the preceding equations defines the loss, which is in the [0,1] range, and the second is a fitness score...

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Iaroslav Omelianenko occupied the position of CTO and research director for more than a decade. He is an active member of the research community and has published several research papers at arXiv, ResearchGate, Preprints, and more. He started working with applied machine learning by developing autonomous agents for mobile games more than a decade ago. For the last 5 years, he has actively participated in research related to applying deep machine learning methods for authentication, personal traits recognition, cooperative robotics, synthetic intelligence, and more. He is an active software developer and creates open source neuroevolution algorithm implementations in the Go language.
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