Self-adaptive mutation rates in genetic algorithm for inverse design of cellular automata

  • Authors:
  • Ron Breukelaar;Thomas Baeck

  • Affiliations:
  • Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands and Blueridge Analytics Inc., Charlotte, NC;Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands and Nutech Solutions GmbH, Dortmund, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Self-adaptation is used a lot in Evolutionary Strategies and with great success, yet for some reason it is not the mutation adaptation of choice for Genetic Algorithms. This poster describes how a self-adaptive mutation rate was used in a Genetic Algorithms to inverse design behavioral rules for a Cellular Automata. The unique characteristics of this search space gave rise to some interesting convergence behavior that might have implications for using self-adaptive mutation rates in other Genetic Algorithm applications and might clarify why self-adaptation in Genetic Algorithms is less successful than in Evolutionary Strategies.