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EC
1998
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Effects of Code Growth and Parsimony Pressure on Populations in Genetic Programming
Parsimony pressure, the explicit penalization of larger programs, has been increasingly used as a means of controlling code growth in genetic programming. However, in many cases p...
Terence Soule, James A. Foster
GECCO
2008
Springer
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Parsimony pressure made easy
The parsimony pressure method is perhaps the simplest and most frequently used method to control bloat in genetic programming. In this paper we first reconsider the size evolutio...
Riccardo Poli, Nicholas Freitag McPhee