Geometric semantic genetic programming with normalized and standardized random programs

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@Article{Bakurov:2024:GPEM,

• author = "Illya Bakurov and Jose Manuel {Munoz Contreras} and Mauro Castelli and Nuno Rodrigues and Sara Silva and Leonardo Trujillo and Leonardo Vanneschi",
• title = "Geometric semantic genetic programming with normalized and standardized random programs",
• journal = "Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines",
• year = "2024",
• volume = "25",
• pages = "Article no 6",
• note = "Online first",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Geometric semantic mutation, Internal covariate shift, Sigmoid distribution bias, Model simplification",
• ISSN = "1389-2576",
• URL = "https://rdcu.be/dysci",
• DOI = "doi:10.1007/s10710-024-09479-1",
• size = "29 pages",
• abstract = "Geometric semantic genetic programming (GSGP) represents one of the most promising developments in the area of evolutionary computation (EC) in the last decade. The results achieved by incorporating semantic awareness in the evolutionary process demonstrate the impact that geometric semantic operators have brought to the field of EC. An improvement to the geometric semantic mutation (GSM) operator is proposed, inspired by the results achieved by batch normalization in deep learning. While, in one of its most used versions, GSM relies on the use of the sigmoid function to constrain the semantics of two random programs responsible for perturbing the parent semantics, here a different approach is followed, which allows reducing the size of the resulting programs and overcoming the issues associated with the use of the sigmoid function, as commonly done in deep learning. The idea is to consider a single random program and use it to perturb the parent’s semantics only after standardization or normalization. The experimental results demonstrate the suitability of the proposed approach: despite its simplicity, the presented GSM variants outperform standard GSGP on the studied benchmarks, with a difference in terms of performance that is statistically significant. Furthermore, the individuals generated by the new GSM variants are easier to simplify, allowing us to create accurate but significantly smaller solutions.",

}

Genetic Programming entries for Illya Bakurov Jose Manuel Munoz Contreras Mauro Castelli Nuno Miguel Rodrigues Domingos Sara Silva Leonardo Trujillo Leonardo Vanneschi

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