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Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) suffers from a specific limitation: Positional bias, a phenomenon in which mostly genes at the start of the genome contribute to a program output, while genes at the end rarely do. This can lead to an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Henning Cui , Andreas Margraf , Jörg Hähner

Existing genetic programming (GP) methods are typically designed based on a certain representation, such as tree-based or linear representations. These representations show various pros and cons in different domains. However, due to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhixing Huang , Yi Mei , Fangfang Zhang , Mengjie Zhang , Wolfgang Banzhaf

Semantics in the context of Genetic Program (GP) can be understood as the behaviour of a program given a set of inputs and has been well documented in improving performance of GP for a range of diverse problems. There have been a wide…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Edgar Galván , Fergal Stapleton

In this work, we propose a set of physics-informed geometric operators (GOs) to enrich the geometric data provided for training surrogate/discriminative models, dimension reduction, and generative models, typically employed for performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Shahroz Khan , Zahid Masood , Muhammad Usama , Konstantinos Kostas , Panagiotis Kaklis , Wei , Chen

Optimizing a neural network's performance is a tedious and time taking process, this iterative process does not have any defined solution which can work for all the problems. Optimization can be roughly categorized into - Architecture and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Siddhartha Dhar Choudhury , Shashank Pandey , Kunal Mehrotra

This paper describes the software implementation of genetic algorithm for identifying and selecting most relevant results received during sequentially executed subject search operations. Simulated evolutionary process generates sustainable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-17 V. K. Ivanov , P. I. Meskin

Transformer Semantic Genetic Programming (TSGP) is a semantic search approach that uses a pre-trained transformer model as a variation operator to generate offspring programs with high semantic similarity to a given parent. Unlike other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Philipp Anthes , Dominik Sobania , Franz Rothlauf

Genetic Programming yields interpretable programs, but small syntactic mutations can induce large, unpredictable behavioral shifts, degrading locality and sample efficiency. We frame this as an operator-design problem: learn a continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Matthew Siper , Muhammad Umair Nasir , Ahmed Khalifa , Lisa Soros , Jay Azhang , Julian Togelius

Several types of numerical and combinatorial optimization algorithms have been used as useful tools to minimize functional forms. Generally, when those forms are non-linear or occur in problems without a specific optimization method,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luiz Fernando Roncaratti , Ricardo Gargano , Geraldo Magela e Silva

This paper characterizes the inherent power of evolutionary algorithms. This power depends on the computational properties of the genetic encoding. With some encodings, two parents recombined with a simple crossover operator can sample from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Elliot Meyerson , Xin Qiu , Risto Miikkulainen

Genetic Network Programming (GNP) is an evolutionary algorithm that extends Genetic Programming (GP). It is typically used in agent control problems. In contrast to GP, which employs a tree structure, GNP utilizes a directed graph…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ali Kohan , Mohamad Roshanzamir , Roohallah Alizadehsani

Black box deep learning models trained on genomic sequences excel at predicting the outcomes of different gene regulatory mechanisms. Therefore, interpreting these models may provide novel insights into the underlying biology, supporting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Pedro Barbosa , Rosina Savisaar , Alcides Fonseca

This paper investigates a novel problem, namely the Uncertain Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling Problem (UAEOSSP). Unlike the static AEOSSP, it takes into account a range of uncertain factors (e.g., task profit, resource…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yuning Chen , Junhua Xue , Wangqi Gu , Mingyan Shao

The semantic capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have the potential to enable rich analytics and reasoning over vast knowledge corpora. Unfortunately, existing systems either empirically optimize expensive LLM-powered operations…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liana Patel , Siddharth Jha , Melissa Pan , Harshit Gupta , Parth Asawa , Carlos Guestrin , Matei Zaharia

Symbolic regression is the process of identifying mathematical expressions that fit observed output from a black-box process. It is a discrete optimization problem generally believed to be NP-hard. Prior approaches to solving the problem…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-19 T. Nathan Mundhenk , Mikel Landajuela , Ruben Glatt , Claudio P. Santiago , Daniel M. Faissol , Brenden K. Petersen

Genetic algorithms are modeled after the biological evolutionary processes that use natural selection to select the best species to survive. They are heuristics based and low cost to compute. Genetic algorithms use selection, crossover, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Mee Seong Im , Venkat R. Dasari

Many quantities we are interested in predicting are geometric tensors; we refer to this class of problems as geometric prediction. Attempts to perform geometric prediction in real-world scenarios have been limited to approximating them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Raphael J. L. Townshend , Brent Townshend , Stephan Eismann , Ron O. Dror

In this paper, a novel knowledge-based genetic algorithm for path planning of a mobile robot in unstructured complex environments is proposed, where five problem-specific operators are developed for efficient robot path planning. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yanrong Hu , Simon X. Yang

A good feature representation is a determinant factor to achieve high performance for many machine learning algorithms in terms of classification. This is especially true for techniques that do not build complex internal representations of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Noëlie Cherrier , Jean-Philippe Poli , Maxime Defurne , Franck Sabatié

The lack of diversity in a genetic algorithm's population may lead to a bad performance of the genetic operators since there is not an equilibrium between exploration and exploitation. In those cases, genetic algorithms present a fast and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Andrés Herrera-Poyatos , Francisco Herrera