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The problem of automatic software generation is known as Machine Programming. In this work, we propose a framework based on genetic algorithms to solve this problem. Although genetic algorithms have been used successfully for many problems,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shantanu Mandal , Todd A. Anderson , Javier S. Turek , Justin Gottschlich , Shengtian Zhou , Abdullah Muzahid

Contemporary genetic programming (GP) systems for general program synthesis have been primarily concerned with evolving programs that can manipulate values from a standard set of primitive data types and simple indexed data structures. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Edward Pantridge , Thomas Helmuth

Genetic programming is the practice of evolving formulas using crossover and mutation of genes representing functional operations. Motivated by genetic evolution we develop and solve two combinatorial games, and we demonstrate some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Melissa A. Huggan , Craig Tennenhouse

Genetic Algorithms are a popular set of optimization algorithms often used to aid software testing. However, no work has been done to apply systematic software testing techniques to genetic algorithms because of the stochasticity and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Janette Rounds , Upulee Kanewala

The rapid advances in the field of optimization methods in many pure and applied science pose the difficulty of keeping track of the developments as well as selecting an appropriate technique that best suits the problem in-hand. From a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Loris Serafino

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

This paper demonstrates the use of genetic algorithms for evolving: 1) a grandmaster-level evaluation function, and 2) a search mechanism for a chess program, the parameter values of which are initialized randomly. The evaluation function…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Eli David , H. Jaap van den Herik , Moshe Koppel , Nathan S. Netanyahu

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

Automatic programming, the task of generating computer programs compliant with a specification without a human developer, is usually tackled either via genetic programming methods based on mutation and recombination of programs, or via…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Vadim Liventsev , Aki Härmä , Milan Petković

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

In medical fields, text classification is one of the most important tasks that can significantly reduce human workload through structured information digitization and intelligent decision support. Despite the popularity of learning-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 J Liu , R Bai , Z Lu , P Ge , D Liu , Uwe Aickelin

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

We study a generic program to investigate the scope for automatically customising it for a vital current task, which was not considered when it was first written. In detail, we show genetic programming (GP) can evolve models of aspects of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-25 W. B. Langdon , M. Harman

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have demonstrated unparalleled sampling quality and diversity in numerous fields, such as image generation, voice synthesis, and tabular data synthesis, etc. Inspired by those outstanding results, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Haksoo Lim , Jaehoon Lee , Sewon Park , Minjung Kim , Noseong Park

Synthetic verification techniques such as generating test cases and reward modelling are common ways to enhance the coding capabilities of large language models (LLM) beyond predefined tests. Additionally, code verification has recently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Aleksander Ficek , Somshubra Majumdar , Vahid Noroozi , Boris Ginsburg

This paper describes a methodology for analyzing the evolutionary dynamics of genetic programming (GP) using genealogical information, diversity measures and information about the fitness variation from parent to offspring. We introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Bogdan Burlacu , Michael Affenzeller , Michael Kommenda

Testing provides means pertaining to assuring software performance. The total aim of software industry is actually to make a certain start associated with high quality software for the end user. However, associated with software testing has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Ahmed Mateen , Marriam Nazir , Salman Afsar Awan

We introduce a genetic programming method for solving multiple Boolean circuit synthesis tasks simultaneously. This allows us to solve a set of elementary logic functions twice as easily as with a direct, single-task approach.

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Eric O. Scott , Kenneth A. De Jong

Software reliability is a primary concern in the construction of software, and thus a fundamental component in the definition of software quality. Analyzing software reliability requires a specification of the intended behavior of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Facundo Molina , Pablo Ponzio , Nazareno Aguirre , Marcelo Frias

Gene finding is the task of identifying the locations of coding sequences within the vast amount of genetic code contained in the genome. With an ever increasing quantity of raw genome sequences, gene finding is an important avenue towards…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-07 Frederikke I. Marin , Dennis Pultz , Wouter Boomsma