In earlier work we predicted program size would grow in the limit at a quadratic rate and up to fty generations we measured bloat O(generations1:2;1:5). On two simple benchmarks w...
Genetic programming has highlighted the problem of bloat, the uncontrolled growth of the average size of an individual in the population. The most common approach to dealing with ...
A representation-less model for genetic programming is presented. The model is intended to examine the mechanisms that lead to bloat in genetic programming (GP). We discuss two hyp...
Code bloat, the excessive increase of code size, is an important issue in Genetic Programming (GP). This paper proposes a theoretical analysis of code bloat in GP from the perspec...
Nur Merve Amil, Nicolas Bredeche, Christian Gagn&e...
To investigate the fundamental causes of bloat, six artificial random binary tree search spaces are presented. Fitness is given by program syntax (the genetic programming genotype)...