Below are links to animations that illustrate the concepts in the book, as well as several interactive demos (labeled as such) that allow exploring those concepts through a web interface.
Chapter 2: The Basics
Simple GA: Shaffer, Rastrigin
Simple ES: Shaffer, Rastrigin
CMA-ES: Shaffer, Rastrigin, Shaffer2, Rastrigin2
NES: Shaffer, Rastrigin
OpenAIES: Shaffer, Rastrigin
Bipedal walker: stuck, successful
Chapter 3: The Fundamentals of Neuroevolution
Bipedal walker learning: Walk, Getting unstuck
Bipedal walker strategies: Reaching, Jumping
Bipedal walker on other terrains: Terrain1, Terrain2
Walking and Atari playing with Simple GAs
NEAT-evolved Mario controller
Chaper 4: Indirect Encodings
Evolving soft robots with CPPNs
Evolving gaits for legged robots with HyperNEAT
Multiagent HyperNEAT Predator-Prey Scaling
Multi-brain HyperNEAT for team patrol
AttentionAgent in CarRacing and VizDoom
Chapter 5: Searching for / Utilizing Diversity
Stepping Stones in Novelty Search
Novelty Search in Bipedal Walking
Diversity of creatures from a single run of novelty search with local competition
Egalitarian Social Learning
Chapter 6: Neuroevolution of Behavior
Controlling a Finless Rocket
Race-Car Driving
Personal Satellite Assistant
Evolving Modular Controllers for Multilegged Robots
Evolving Controller Symmetry for Multilegged Robots
Evolving Controllers for Physical Multilegged Robots
Modeling the Environment through Context+Skill Networks
Keepaway Soccer
Learning in Fractured Domains
Multimodal behavior in Ms. Pac-Man: Multilife; Single-life; Interleaved; Isolated
Automatic Regularization with a Surrogate Model
Automated Curricular Evolution with a Surrogate Model
Evolution of the Pareto Front
Interactive Demo: Land-use Optimization
Interactive Demo: Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in COVID-19
Chapter 7: Neuroevolution of Collective Systems
Cooperation Based on Stigmergy vs. Communication
Heterogeneous neural architecture training through deep innovation protection
Adaptive Teams of Agents (Legion-II Game)
Competitive Coevolution (Robotic Duel)
Evolutionary Arms Race (Hyenas and Zebras)
Severe Damage Recovery in Evolving Soft Robots through Gradient Descent
Growing Game Levels with Neural Cellular Automata
Hyper Neural Cellular Automata
Neural Developmental Programs
Growing Minecraft Machines with NCAs
Chapter 8: Interactive Neuroevolution
NERO 1.0 Behaviors
NERO 2.0 Videos
Picbreeder
Galactic Arms Race: intro video, game
Petalz gameplay video
Chapter 9: Open-Ended Neuroevolution
Body-Brain Coevolution
POET
Enhanced POET
OMNI-EPIC
Chaser-escapee coevolution
Chapter 10: Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search
Backprop NEAT
Discovering Complex LSTM Designs
Interactive demo: LSTM Music Maker
CoDeepNEAT in Character Recognition
CoDeepNEAT Optimizing Accuracy and Size
Discovering Multitask Learning Topologies in Character Recognition
Interactive demo: Character Recognition
Interactive demo: Celebrity Match through Multitask Evolution
Interactive demo: Weight-Agnostic Neural Networks
Chapter 11: Evolutionary Meta-Learning
Bilevel Optimization of Helicopter Hovering
Neuromorphic Autonomous Racecar
Chapter 12: Synergies with Reinforcement Learning
Walking robot with ES-MAML
Meta-learning with Hebbian networks: Car Racing, Quadruped Locomotion
Hebbian Learning for Physical Robot Transfer
DERL: Embodied Intelligence via Learning and Evolution
Chapter 13: Synergies with Generative AI
Evolutionary Model Merging
Sodaracer: Seeds, Seeded results, Variations, Blob, Hopper, Centipede,
Sodaracer: Lineage, Bump challenge, Solution1, Solution2, Tunnel challenge
AlphaEvolve
MarioGAN
Agent Playing Level Generated by MarioGPT
Evolution Strategy Fine Tuning an LLM
Chapter 14: What Neuroevolution Can Tell Us About Biological Evolution
Evolutionary origins of modularity
Evolution of Pattern Generators
Evolved Virtual Creatures; Multitask Extension; Muscle-drive Extension
Botprize Demo Video; Other Botprize Videos
Complex Coordinated Behavior of Hyenas vs. Lions