Hinton & Nowlan’s computational Baldwin effect revisit: Are we happy with it?
Hinton & Nowlan’s computational Baldwin effect revisit: are we happy with it?

Summary/Abstract: In their seminal paper published in 1987, Hinton & Nowlan showed us an elegant experiment which might be called an evolution with the Baldwin effect in computers which searches for only one object located in a huge search space. The object was called a-needle-in-a-haystack. Hinton & Nowlan evolved a population of candidates of the solution in the same way as a standard evolutionary search. What made it unique was an exploitation of individual’s lifetime-learning. Since then we have had a fair amount of proposals of how we reach the needle more efficiently. The issue, however, is still open to debate. We try to repeat their experiment and take a consideration on it.

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