Elitism is commonly used in generational GP to ensure that the best individuals discovered in a generation are not lost, and are made available for possible further improvements t...
Riccardo Poli, Nicholas Freitag McPhee, Leonardo V...
Abstract- The Maximum Homologous Crossover attempts to preserve similar structures from parents by aligning them according to their homology. In this paper, it is successfully test...
Michael Defoin-Platel, Manuel Clergue, Philippe Co...
The crossover bias theory for bloat [18] is a recent result which predicts that bloat is caused by the sampling of short, unfit programs. This theory is clear and simple, but it ...
Riccardo Poli, Nicholas Freitag McPhee, Leonardo V...
Abstract. Bloat control is an important aspect of evolutionary computation methods, such as genetic programming, which must deal with genomes of arbitrary size. We introduce three ...
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 the framework of sy...
Sylvain Gelly, Olivier Teytaud, Nicolas Bredeche, ...