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Analysis of a Pairwise Dominance Coevolutionary Algorithm with Spatial Topology

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Competitive coevolutionary algorithms are used to model adversarial dynamics. The diversity of the adversarial populations can be changed with a spatial topology. To achieve more clarity in how a spatial topology impacts performance and complexity we introduce a spatial topology to a pairwise dominance coevolutionary algorithm named PDCoEA. The new algorithm is called STPDCoEA. We use a methodology for consistent algorithm comparison to empirically study the impact of topology, problem, and mutation rates on the dynamics and payoffs in STPDCoEA. We compare records of multi-run dynamics on three problems and observe that the spatial topology impacts the performance and diversity.

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    Node B is not necessarily isolated from A if node A is isolated from B.

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Lehre and Hevia were supported by a Turing AI Fellowship (EPSRC grant ref EP/V025562/1).

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  1. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England

    Mario Hevia Fajardo & Per Kristian Lehre

  2. University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

    Jamal Toutouh

  3. ALFA, MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, England

    Erik Hemberg & Una-May O’Reilly

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Hevia Fajardo, M., Lehre, P.K., Toutouh, J., Hemberg, E., O’Reilly, UM. (2024). Analysis of a Pairwise Dominance Coevolutionary Algorithm with Spatial Topology. In: Winkler, S., Trujillo, L., Ofria, C., Hu, T. (eds) Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XX. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8413-8_2

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