The core message of this paper is to provide insight into the effective integration of surrogate models into neuroevolution, addressing the challenge of high-dimensional data by employing Linear Genetic Programming (NeuroLGP) and Kriging Partial Least Squares (KPLS). The proposed NeuroLGP-SM approach consistently identifies well-performing deep neural networks while reducing the computational requirements compared to a baseline neuroevolutionary method.
A novel surrogate-assisted neuroevolution approach, named NeuroLGP-SM, efficiently and accurately estimates the fitness of deep neural network architectures without the need for complete evaluations, enabling scalable optimization of large DNN models.