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This paper proposes Genetic Algorithm with Border Trades (GAB), a novel modification of the standard genetic algorithm that enhances exploration by incorporating new chromosome patterns in the breeding process. This approach significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Qingchuan Lyu

Grammatical Evolution (GE) is one of the most popular Genetic Programming (GP) variants, and it has been used with success in several problem domains. Since the original proposal, many enhancements have been proposed to GE in order to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jessica Mégane , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado

Software testing is an expensive process, which is vital in the industry. Construction of the test-data in software testing requires the major cost and to decide which method to use in order to generate the test data is important. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Arash Mehrmand , Robert Feldt

We demonstrate how a genetic algorithm solves the problem of minimizing the resources used for network coding, subject to a throughput constraint, in a multicast scenario. A genetic algorithm avoids the computational complexity that makes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Minkyu Kim , Varun Aggarwal , Una-May O'Reilly , Muriel Medard , Wonsik Kim

This paper concerns applications of genetic algorithms and genetic programming to tasks for which it is difficult to find a representation that does not map to a highly complex and discontinuous fitness landscape. In such cases the standard…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Michal Gregor , Juraj Spalek

A genetic algorithm is suitable for exploring large search spaces as it finds an approximate solution. Because of this advantage, genetic algorithm is effective in exploring vast and unknown space such as molecular search space. Though the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Yurim Lee , Gydam Choi , Minsung Yoon , Cheongwon Kim

In the context of software testing, generating complex data inputs is frequently performed using a grammar-based specification. For combinatorial reasons, an exhaustive generation of the data -- of a given size -- is practically impossible,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Alois Dreyfus , Pierre-Cyrille Heam , Olga Kouchnarenko

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 formulate the search for phenomenological models of synaptic plasticity as an optimization problem. We employ Cartesian genetic programming to evolve biologically plausible human-interpretable plasticity rules that allow a given network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Henrik D. Mettler , Maximilian Schmidt , Walter Senn , Mihai A. Petrovici , Jakob Jordan

Markov Junior is a probabilistic programming language used for procedural content generation across various domains. However, its reliance on manually crafted and tuned probabilistic rule sets, also called grammars, presents a significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Mehmet Kayra Oğuz , Alexander Dockhorn

Genetic algorithm (GA) is typically used to solve nonlinear model predictive control's optimization problem. However, the size of the search space in which the GA searches for the optimal control inputs is crucial for its applicability to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Eslam Mostafa , Hussein A. Aly , Ahmed Elliethy

Most of the problems in genetic algorithms are very complex and demand a large amount of resources that current technology can not offer. Our purpose was to develop a Java-JINI distributed library that implements Genetic Algorithms with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Marco AR Erra , Pedro MM Mitra , Agostinho C Rosa

Recently, there emerged revived interests of designing automatic programs (e.g., using genetic/evolutionary algorithms) to optimize the structure of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for a specific task. The challenge in designing such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Zhe Li , Xuehan Xiong , Zhou Ren , Ning Zhang , Xiaoyu Wang , Tianbao Yang

LLMs are widely used for code generation and mathematical reasoning tasks where they are required to generate structured output. They either need to reason about code, generate code for a given specification, or reason using programs of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Poorva Garg , Renato Lui Geh , Daniel Israel , Todd Millstein , Kyle Richardson , Guy Van den Broeck

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

We investigate the ability of a genetic algorithm to design cellular automata that perform computations. The computational strategies of the resulting cellular automata can be understood using a framework in which ``particles'' embedded in…

adap-org · Physics 2015-06-30 James P. Crutchfield , Melanie Mitchell , Rajarshi Das

A new model for evolving Evolutionary Algorithms is proposed in this paper. The model is based on the Linear Genetic Programming (LGP) technique. Every LGP chromosome encodes an EA which is used for solving a particular problem. Several…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Mihai Oltean

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

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

This work aims to study and explore the use of Gene Expression Programming (GEP) in solving the on-line Bin-Packing problem. The main idea is to show how GEP can automatically find acceptable heuristic rules to solve the problem efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Najla Akram Al-Saati