Symbiosis, complexification and simplicity under GP

  • Authors:
  • Peter Lichodzijewski;Malcolm I. Heywood

  • Affiliations:
  • Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada;Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Models of Genetic Programming (GP) frequently reflect a neo-Darwinian view to evolution in which inheritance is based on a process of gradual refinement and the resulting solutions take the form of single monolithic programs. Conversely, introducing an explicitly symbiotic model of inheritance makes a divide-and-conquer metaphor for problem decomposition central to evolution. Benchmarking gradualist versus symbiotic models of evolution under a common evolutionary framework illustrates that not only does symbiosis result in more accurate solutions, but the solutions are also much simpler in terms of instruction and attribute count over a wide range of classification problem domains.