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Numerical-node building block analysis of genetic programming with simplification

Published: 07 July 2007 Publication History

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This paper investigates the effects on building blocks of using online simplification in a GP system. Numerical nodes are tracked through individual runs to observe their behaviour. Results show that simplification disrupts building blocks early on, but also creates new building blocks.

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Terence Soule and James A. Foster and John Dickinson, Code Growth in Genetic Programming, in Genetic Programming 1996, pages 215--223, MIT Press.
[2]
Phillip Wong and Mengjie Zhang, Algebraic simplification of GP programs during evolution, in GECCO 2006, pages 927--934, ACM Press.

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    GECCO '07: Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
    July 2007
    2313 pages
    ISBN:9781595936974
    DOI:10.1145/1276958

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    1. code bloat
    2. genetic programming
    3. numerical-nodes
    4. simplification

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