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Adaption of Operator Probabilities in Genetic Programming

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Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2001)

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In this work we tried to reduce the number of free parameters within Genetic Programming without reducing the quality of the results. We developed three new methods to adapt the probabilities, different genetic operators are applied with. Using two problems from the areas of symbolic regression and classification we showed that the results in these cases were better than randomly chosen parameter sets and could compete with parameter sets chosen with empirical knowledge.

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  1. System Analysis, Computer Science Department, University of Dortmund, D, 44221, Dortmund, Germany

    Jens Niehaus & Wolfgang Banzhaf

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  1. Jens Niehaus
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham

    Julian Miller

  2. Computer Science Institute, University of Lausanne, Lausanne

    Marco Tomassini

  3. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

    Pier Luca Lanzi

  4. Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Limerick

    Conor Ryan

  5. Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

    Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi

  6. Department of Computer Science, University College London, London

    William B. Langdon

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Niehaus, J., Banzhaf, W. (2001). Adaption of Operator Probabilities in Genetic Programming. In: Miller, J., Tomassini, M., Lanzi, P.L., Ryan, C., Tettamanzi, A.G.B., Langdon, W.B. (eds) Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45355-5_26

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