Probabilistic Lexicase Selection

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@InProceedings{ding:2023:GECCO,

• author = "Li Ding and Edward Pantridge and Lee Spector",
• title = "Probabilistic Lexicase Selection",
• booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2023 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference",
• year = "2023",
• editor = "Sara Silva and Luis Paquete and Leonardo Vanneschi and Nuno Lourenco and Ales Zamuda and Ahmed Kheiri and Arnaud Liefooghe and Bing Xue and Ying Bi and Nelishia Pillay and Irene Moser and Arthur Guijt and Jessica Catarino and Pablo Garcia-Sanchez and Leonardo Trujillo and Carla Silva and Nadarajen Veerapen",
• pages = "1073--1081",
• address = "Lisbon, Portugal",
• series = "GECCO '23",
• month = "15-19 " # jul,
• organisation = "SIGEVO",
• publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
• publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, symbolic regression, machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, program synthesis, parent selection",
• isbn13 = "9798400701191",
• DOI = "doi:10.1145/3583131.3590375",
• size = "9 pages",
• abstract = "Lexicase selection is a widely used parent selection algorithm in genetic programming, known for its success in various task domains such as program synthesis, symbolic regression, and machine learning. Due to its non-parametric and recursive nature, calculating the probability of each individual being selected by lexicase selection has been proven to be an NP-hard problem, which discourages deeper theoretical understanding and practical improvements to the algorithm. In this work, we introduce probabilistic lexicase selection (plexicase selection), a novel parent selection algorithm that efficiently approximates the probability distribution of lexicase selection. Our method not only demonstrates superior problem-solving capabilities as a semantic-aware selection method, but also benefits from having a probabilistic representation of the selection process for enhanced efficiency and flexibility. Experiments are conducted in two prevalent domains in genetic programming: program synthesis and symbolic regression, using standard benchmarks including PSB and SRBench. The empirical results show that plexicase selection achieves state-of-the-art problem-solving performance that is competitive to the lexicase selection, and significantly outperforms lexicase selection in computation efficiency.",
• notes = "GECCO-2023 A Recombination of the 32nd International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA) and the 28th Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP)",

}

Genetic Programming entries for Li Ding Edward R Pantridge Lee Spector

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