Cloud driven design of a distributed genetic programming platform

  • Authors:
  • Owen Derby;Kalyan Veeramachaneni;Una-May O'Reilly

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • EvoApplications'13 Proceedings of the 16th European conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We describe how we design FlexGP, a distributed genetic programming (GP) system to efficiently run on the cloud. The system has a decentralized, fault-tolerant, cascading startup where nodes start to compute while more nodes are launched. It has a peer-to-peer neighbor discovery protocol which constructs a robust communication network across the nodes. Concurrent with neighbor discovery, each node launches a GP run differing in parameterization and training data from its neighbors. This factoring of parameters across learners produces many diverse models for use in ensemble learning.