Introduction to genetic programming

Genetic programming (GP) is a collection of evolutionary computation techniques that allow computers to solve problems automatically. Using ideas from natural evolution, GP starts from an ooze of random computer programs, and progressively refines them ...

The use of genetic algorithms (GAs) to evolve neural network (NN) weights has risen in popularity in recent years, particularly when used together with gradient descent as a mutation operator. However, crossover operators are often omitted from ...