Title
An improved Gene Expression Programming approach for symbolic regression problems.
Abstract
Gene Expression Programming (GEP) is a powerful evolutionary method for knowledge discovery and model learning. Based on the basic GEP algorithm, this paper proposes an improved algorithm named S_GEP, which is especially suitable for dealing with symbolic regression problems. The major advantages for this S_GEP method include: (1) A new method for evaluating individual without expression tree; (2) a corresponding expression tree construction schema for the new evaluating individual method if required by some special complex problems; and (3) a new approach for manipulating numeric constants so as to improve the convergence. A thorough comparative study between our proposed S_GEP method with the primitive GEP, as well as other methods are included in this paper. The comparative results show that the proposed S_GEP method can significantly improve the GEP performance. Several well-studied benchmark test cases and real-world test cases demonstrate the efficiency and capability of our proposed S_GEP for symbolic regression problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.neucom.2013.05.062
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Genetic computing,Gene Expression Programming,Evolutionary algorithm,Symbolic regression,Data modeling
Convergence (routing),Gene expression programming,Data modeling,Evolutionary algorithm,Computer science,Test case,Artificial intelligence,Knowledge extraction,Symbolic regression,Binary expression tree,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
137
0925-2312
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.63
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu-zhong Peng1101.66
Chang-an Yuan2859.88
Xiao Qin390.97
JiangTao Huang490.63
YaBing Shi590.63