Using quotient graphs to model neutrality in evolutionary search
Proceedings of the 10th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
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In this paper we demonstrate that pressure for robustness combined with function sets containing redundant genes can cause an evolutionary system to avoid a more fit solution in favor of a more robust solution. It is also shown that this trend depends significantly on the mutation rate used.