Neutrality: A Necessity for Self-Adaptation

Self-adaptation is used in all main paradigms of evolutionary computation to increase efficiency. We claim that the basis of self-adaptation is the use of neutrality. In the absence of external control neutrality allows a variation of the search distribution without the risk of fitness loss.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Marc Toussaint, Christian Igel
• Keywords: CORR 2002, Education, Evolutionary Computation, External Control Neutrality, Main Paradigms