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Why We Do Not Evolve Software? Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2018-10-17 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art results in evolutionary computation and observe that we do not evolve non trivial software from scratch and with no human intervention. A number of possible explanations are considered, but we conclude that computational complexity of the problem prevents it from being solved as currently attempted. A detailed analysis of necessary and available computational resources is provided to support our findings.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1810.07074,
  title  = {Why We Do Not Evolve Software? Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms},
  author = {Roman V. Yampolskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.07074},
  year   = {2018}
}
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