Crossover can provably be useful in evolutionary computation

  • Authors:
  • Benjamin Doerr;Edda Happ;Christian Klein

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We show that a natural evolutionary algorithm for the all-pairs shortest path problem is significantly faster with a crossover operator than without. This is the first theoretical analysis proving the usefulness of crossover for a non-artificial problem.