Embedding-guided selection for genetic programming using pretrained code representations

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@Article{Bel-Moudden:2026:GPEM,

• author = "Oumaima {Bel Moudden} and Rym Guibadj and Denis Robilliard and Cyril Fonlupt and Abdeslam Kadrani and Rachid Benmansour",
• title = "Embedding-guided selection for genetic programming using pretrained code representations",
• journal = "Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines",
• year = "2026",
• volume = "27",
• pages = "Article no 18",
• month = "10 " # sep,
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Code embeddings, Embedding-guided selection, Program representation learning, Symbolic regression, CodeBERT, Code2Vec, Probabilistic Embedding-Guided Selection, PEGS, LLM distance metric, AI, Two-Stage Embedding-Guided Selection, TSEGS",
• ISSN = "1389-2576",
• DOI = "10.1007/s10710-026-09544-x",
• abstract = "... evaluated on reduced SRBench datasets against standard GP and, in a targeted experiment, an NSGA-II baseline with constant optimization. Results show that embedding-derived information can improve held-out test performance, but its effectiveness depends on the embedding model, selection mechanism, and role assigned to distances. The diversity-oriented TSEGS criterion is most consistently beneficial with Code2Vec, whereas other configurations show more limited or problem-dependent effects. Model-size effects are mixed, and in the targeted NSGA-II experiment the gains are accompanied by larger median trees. A representative-run analysis further indicates that embedding-guided selection does not uniformly increase exploration. Overall, pretrained code embeddings provide a potentially useful but non-universal signal for GP selection, with benefits that must be weighed against configuration sensitivity, model-size effects, and substantial, implementation-dependent computational overhead.",
• notes = "LISIC, Laboratoire d'Informatique Signal et Image de la Cote d'Opale, Universite du Littoral Cote d'Opale, Calais, France",

}

Genetic Programming entries for Oumaima Bel Moudden Rym Nesrine Guibadj Denis Robilliard Cyril Fonlupt Abdeslam Kadrani Rachid Benmansour

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