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Among the evolutionary methods, one that is quite prominent is Genetic Programming, and, in recent years, a variant called Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP) has shown to be successfully applicable to many real-world problems.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Mauro Castelli , Luca Manzoni , Luca Mariot , Giuliamaria Menara , Gloria Pietropolli

Here we propose an evolutionary algorithm that self modifies its operators at the same time that candidate solutions are evolved. This tackles convergence and lack of diversity issues, leading to better solutions. Operators are represented…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Andres Felipe Cruz Salinas , Jonatan Gomez Perdomo

In this paper, a nonlinear symbolic regression technique using an evolutionary algorithm known as multi-gene genetic programming (MGGP) is applied for a data-driven modelling between the dependent and the independent variables. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Indranil Pan , Daya Shankar Pandey , Saptarshi Das

Genetic Programming (GP) has traditionally entangled the evolution of symbolic representations with their performance-based evaluation, often relying solely on raw fitness scores. This tight coupling makes GP solutions more fragile and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Nam H. Le , Josh Bongard

We introduce the use of high order automatic differentiation, implemented via the algebra of truncated Taylor polynomials, in genetic programming. Using the Cartesian Genetic Programming encoding we obtain a high-order Taylor representation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Dario Izzo , Francesco Biscani , Alessio Mereta

Genetic Programming (GP), an evolutionary learning technique, has multiple applications in machine learning such as curve fitting, data modelling, feature selection, classification etc. GP has several inherent parallel steps, making it an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Vimarsh Sathia , Venkataramana Ganesh , Shankara Rao Thejaswi Nanditale

In this paper, we present a machine learning method for the discovery of analytic solutions to differential equations. The method utilizes an inherently interpretable algorithm, genetic programming based symbolic regression. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Hongsup Oh , Roman Amici , Geoffrey Bomarito , Shandian Zhe , Robert Kirby , Jacob Hochhalter

Traceless Genetic Programming (TGP) is a Genetic Programming (GP) variant that is used in cases where the focus is rather the output of the program than the program itself. The main difference between TGP and other GP techniques is that TGP…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Mihai Oltean , Crina Grosan

We analyse the search behaviour of genetic programming for symbolic regression in practically relevant but limited settings, allowing exhaustive enumeration of all solutions. This enables us to quantify the success probability of finding…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Gabriel Kronberger , Fabricio Olivetti de Franca , Harry Desmond , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Lukas Kammerer

Linear Genetic Programming (LGP) is a powerful technique that allows for a variety of problems to be solved using a linear representation of programs. However, there still exists some limitations to the technique, such as the need for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Urmzd Mukhammadnaim

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

Genetic programming is an evolutionary approach known for its performance in program synthesis. However, it is not yet mature enough for a practical use in real-world software development, since usually many training cases are required to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Dominik Sobania , Martin Briesch , Philipp Röchner , Franz Rothlauf

Isotonic regression is a nonparametric approach for fitting monotonic models to data that has been widely studied from both theoretical and practical perspectives. However, this approach encounters computational and statistical overfitting…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-03-21 Ronny Luss , Saharon Rosset , Moni Shahar

This paper proposes a hybrid basis function construction method (GP-RVM) for Symbolic Regression problem, which combines an extended version of Genetic Programming called Kaizen Programming and Relevance Vector Machine to evolve an optimal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Hossein Izadi Rad , Ji Feng , Hitoshi Iba

The mathematical formula is the human language to describe nature and is the essence of scientific research. Finding mathematical formulas from observational data is a major demand of scientific research and a major challenge of artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Yanjie Li , Weijun Li , Lina Yu , Min Wu , Jingyi Liu , Wenqiang Li , Meilan Hao , Shu Wei , Yusong Deng

Learning ensembles by bagging can substantially improve the generalization performance of low-bias, high-variance estimators, including those evolved by Genetic Programming (GP). To be efficient, modern GP algorithms for evolving (bagging)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Marco Virgolin

Symbolic regression is a technique that can automatically derive analytic models from data. Traditionally, symbolic regression has been implemented primarily through genetic programming that evolves populations of candidate solutions…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jiří Kubalík , Robert Babuška

Symbolic regression is an important but challenging research topic in data mining. It can detect the underlying mathematical models. Genetic programming (GP) is one of the most popular methods for symbolic regression. However, its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Chen Chen , Changtong Luo , Zonglin Jiang

This paper describes Postfix-GP system, postfix notation based Genetic Programming (GP), for solving symbolic regression problems. It presents an object-oriented architecture of Postfix-GP framework. It assists the user in understanding of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Vipul K. Dabhi , Sanjay Chaudhary

Interpretability is crucial for machine learning in many scenarios such as quantitative finance, banking, healthcare, etc. Symbolic regression (SR) is a classic interpretable machine learning method by bridging X and Y using mathematical…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-17 Ying Jin , Weilin Fu , Jian Kang , Jiadong Guo , Jian Guo