Reproduction of swarm behavior by learning individual rules using neural network

The swarm of birds and fish produces the well-organized behavior even though each individual is only interacting with neighbors. In order to form the swarm, there should be some rules that each individual is following. In this paper, we examine whether the neural network can learn the individual behavioral rules and reproduce the swarm behavior. In the experiment, boids swarm and real fish swarm are used for the target of learning and reproduction. As a result, the neural network could learn and reproduce the behavior almost perfectly for the boids swarm, and partially for the real fish swarm.