Pyramid search: Finding solutions for deceptive problems quickly in genetic programming

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@InProceedings{ciesielski:2003:psfsfdpqigp,

• author = "Vic Ciesielski and Xiang Li",
• title = "Pyramid search: Finding solutions for deceptive problems quickly in genetic programming",
• booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC2003",
• editor = "Ruhul Sarker and Robert Reynolds and Hussein Abbass and Kay Chen Tan and Bob McKay and Daryl Essam and Tom Gedeon",
• pages = "936--943",
• year = "2003",
• publisher = "IEEE Press",
• address = "Canberra",
• publisher_address = "445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA",
• month = "8-12 " # dec,
• organisation = "IEEE Neural Network Council (NNC), Engineers Australia (IEAust), Evolutionary Programming Society (EPS), Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Australia, Computer science, Information technology, Parallel processing, probability, search problems, deceptive problem, discard process, evolve process, probability, pyramid search strategy, standard deviation",
• ISBN = "0-7803-7804-0",
• DOI = "doi:10.1109/CEC.2003.1299767",
• abstract = "In deceptive problems many runs lead to suboptimal solutions and it can be difficult to escape from these local optima and find the global best solution. We propose a pyramid search strategy for these kinds of problems. In the pyramid strategy a number of populations are initialised and independently evolved for a number of generations at which point the worst performing populations are discarded. This evolve/discard process is continued until the problem is solved or one population remains. We show that for a number of deceptive problems the pyramid strategy results in a higher probability of success with fewer evaluations and a lower standard deviation of the number evaluations to success than the conventional approach of running to a maximum number of generations and then restarting.",
• notes = "CEC 2003 - A joint meeting of the IEEE, the IEAust, the EPS, and the IEE.",

}

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