Lexicase Selection of Specialists

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@InProceedings{Helmuth:2019:GECCO,

• author = "Thomas Helmuth and Edward Pantridge and Lee Spector",
• title = "Lexicase Selection of Specialists",
• booktitle = "GECCO '19: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference",
• year = "2019",
• editor = "Manuel Lopez-Ibanez and Thomas Stuetzle and Anne Auger and Petr Posik and Leslie {Peprez Caceres} and Andrew M. Sutton and Nadarajen Veerapen and Christine Solnon and Andries Engelbrecht and Stephane Doncieux and Sebastian Risi and Penousal Machado and Vanessa Volz and Christian Blum and Francisco Chicano and Bing Xue and Jean-Baptiste Mouret and Arnaud Liefooghe and Jonathan Fieldsend and Jose Antonio Lozano and Dirk Arnold and Gabriela Ochoa and Tian-Li Yu and Holger Hoos and Yaochu Jin and Ting Hu and Miguel Nicolau and Robin Purshouse and Thomas Baeck and Justyna Petke and Giuliano Antoniol and Johannes Lengler and Per Kristian Lehre",
• isbn13 = "978-1-4503-6111-8",
• pages = "1030--1038",
• address = "Prague, Czech Republic",
• DOI = "doi:10.1145/3321707.3321875",
• publisher = "ACM",
• publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
• month = "13-17 " # jul,
• organisation = "SIGEVO",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, lexicase selection, specialization",
• size = "9 pages",
• abstract = "Lexicase parent selection filters the population by considering one random training case at a time, eliminating any individuals with errors for the current case that are worse than the best error in the selection pool, until a single individual remains. This process often stops before considering all training cases, meaning that it will ignore the error values on any cases that were not yet considered. Lexicase selection can therefore select specialist individuals that have poor errors on some training cases, if they have great errors on others and those errors come near the start of the random list of cases used for the parent selection event in question. We hypothesize here that selecting these specialists, which may have poor total error, plays an important role in lexicase selection observed performance advantages over error-aggregating parent selection methods such as tournament selection, which select specialists much less frequently. We conduct experiments examining this hypothesis, and find that lexicase selection performance and diversity maintenance degrade when we deprive it of the ability of selecting specialists. These findings help explain the improved performance of lexicase selection compared to tournament selection, and suggest that specialists help drive evolution under lexicase selection toward global solutions.",
• notes = "Also known as \cite{3321875} GECCO-2019 A Recombination of the 28th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA) and the 24th Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP)",

}

Genetic Programming entries for Thomas Helmuth Edward R Pantridge Lee Spector

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