Neural network crossover in genetic algorithms using genetic programming

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@Article{pretorius:2024:GPEM,

• author = "Kyle Pretorius and Nelishia Pillay",
• title = "Neural network crossover in genetic algorithms using genetic programming",
• journal = "Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines",
• year = "2024",
• volume = "25",
• pages = "Article no 7",
• note = "Online first",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Neural networks, ANN, Evolutionary algorithms, Crossover operator",
• ISSN = "1389-2576",
• DOI = "doi:10.1007/s10710-024-09481-7",
• size = "30 pages",
• abstract = "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 such GAs as they are seen as being highly destructive and detrimental to the performance of the GA. Designing crossover operators that can effectively be applied to NNs has been an active area of research with success limited to specific problem domains. The focus of this study is to use genetic programming (GP) to automatically evolve crossover operators that can be applied to NN weights and used in GAs. A novel GP is proposed and used to evolve both reusable and disposable crossover operators to compare their efficiency. Experiments are conducted to compare the performance of GAs using no crossover operator or a commonly used human designed crossover operator to GAs using GP evolved crossover operators. Results from experiments conducted show that using GP to evolve disposable crossover operators leads to highly effectively crossover operators that significantly improve the results obtained from the GA.",

}

Genetic Programming entries for Kyle Pretorius Nelishia Pillay

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