Exons and Code Growth in Genetic Programming

  • Authors:
  • Terence Soule

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • EuroGP '02 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Genetic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Current theories regarding code growth (bloat) in genetic programming focus on the presence and growth of introns. In this paper we show for the first time that code growth can occur, albeit quite slowly, even in code that has a significant impact on fitness.