THE ROLE OF KEEPING “SEMANTIC BLOCKS” INVARIANT - Effects in Linear Genetic Programming Performance

Marina de la Cruz Echeandía, Alba Martín Lázaro, Alfonso Ortega de la Puente, José Luis Montaña Arnáiz, César L. Alonso

2010

Abstract

This paper is focused on two different approaches (previously proposed by the authors) that perform better than Genetic Programming in typical symbolic regression problems: straight-line program genetic programming (SLP-GP) and evolution with attribute grammars (AGE). Both approaches have different characteristics. One of themost important is that SLP-GP keeps semantic blocks invariant (the crossover operator always exchanges complete subexpressions). In this paper we compare both methods and study the possible effect on their performance of keeping these blocks invariant.

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de la Cruz Echeandía M., Martín Lázaro A., Ortega de la Puente A., Luis Montaña Arnáiz J. and L. Alonso C. (2010). THE ROLE OF KEEPING “SEMANTIC BLOCKS” INVARIANT - Effects in Linear Genetic Programming Performance . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-31-7, pages 365-368. DOI: 10.5220/0003085403650368


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@conference{icec10,
author={Marina de la Cruz Echeandía and Alba Martín Lázaro and Alfonso Ortega de la Puente and José Luis Montaña Arnáiz and César L. Alonso},
title={THE ROLE OF KEEPING “SEMANTIC BLOCKS” INVARIANT - Effects in Linear Genetic Programming Performance},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={365-368},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003085403650368},
isbn={978-989-8425-31-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)
TI - THE ROLE OF KEEPING “SEMANTIC BLOCKS” INVARIANT - Effects in Linear Genetic Programming Performance
SN - 978-989-8425-31-7
AU - de la Cruz Echeandía M.
AU - Martín Lázaro A.
AU - Ortega de la Puente A.
AU - Luis Montaña Arnáiz J.
AU - L. Alonso C.
PY - 2010
SP - 365
EP - 368
DO - 10.5220/0003085403650368