Avoiding the Bloat with Stochastic Grammar-based Genetic Programming Export

@misc{citeulike:2649212, abstract = {The application of Genetic Programming to the discovery of empirical laws is often impaired by the huge size of the search space, and consequently by the computer resources needed. In many cases, the extreme demand for memory and CPU is due to the massive growth of non-coding segments, the introns. The paper presents a new program evolution framework which combines distribution-based evolution in the PBIL spirit, with grammar-based genetic programming; the information is stored as a probability distribution on the gra mmar rules, rather than in a population. Experiments on a real-world like problem show that this approach gives a practical solution to the problem of intron growth.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Ratle, Alain and Sebag, Mich\&\#xe8;le}, citeulike-article-id = {2649212}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0602022}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0602022}, eprint = {cs/0602022}, keywords = {genetic-programming, grammars}, month = {Feb}, posted-at = {2008-04-10 14:10:43}, priority = {2}, title = {Avoiding the Bloat with Stochastic Grammar-based Genetic Programming}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0602022}, year = {2006} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:2649212 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2649212 N2 - The application of Genetic Programming to the discovery of empirical laws is often impaired by the huge size of the search space, and consequently by the computer resources needed. In many cases, the extreme demand for memory and CPU is due to the massive growth of non-coding segments, the introns. The paper presents a new program evolution framework which combines distribution-based evolution in the PBIL spirit, with grammar-based genetic programming; the information is stored as a probability distribution on the gra mmar rules, rather than in a population. Experiments on a real-world like problem show that this approach gives a practical solution to the problem of intron growth. TI - Avoiding the Bloat with Stochastic Grammar-based Genetic Programming KW - genetic-programming KW - grammars AU - Ratle, Alain AU - Sebag, Michèle PY - 2006/Feb/07/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0602022 ER -