Title
On the Evolutionary Behavior of Genetic Programming with Constants Optimization
Abstract
Evolutionary systems are characterized by two seemingly contradictory properties: robustness and evolvability. Robustness is generally defined as an organism's ability to withstand genetic perturbation while maintaining its phenotype. Evolvability, as an organism's ability to produce useful variation. In genetic programming, the relationship between the two, mediated by selection and variation-producing operators (recombination and mutation), makes it difficult to understand the behavior and evolutionary dynamics of the search process. In this paper, we show that a local gradient-based constants optimization step can improve the overall population evolvability by inducing a beneficial structure-preserving bias on selection, which in the long term helps the process maintain diversity and produce better solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-53856-8_36
EUROCAST (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Behavior, Constant Optimization, Symbolic Regression, Algorithm Analysis
Population,Mathematical optimization,Evolutionary algorithm,Computer science,Evolvability,Genetic programming,Artificial intelligence,Genetic representation,Evolutionary dynamics,Evolutionary programming,Symbolic regression,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8111
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bogdan Burlacu1214.85
Michael Affenzeller233962.47
Michael Kommenda39715.58