Seeding Genetic Programming Populations

We show genetic programming (GP) populations can evolve under the influence of a Pareto multi-objective fitness and program size selection scheme, from "perfect" programs which match the training material to general solutions. The technique is demonstrated with programmatic image compression, two machine learning benchmark problems (Pima Diabetes and Wisconsin Breast Cancer) and an insurance customer profiling task (Benelearn99 data mining).

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: EUROGP
• Authors: William B. Langdon, Peter Nordin
• Keywords: EUROGP 2000, Optimization, Pareto Multi-objective Fitness, Programmatic Image Compression, Size Selection Scheme