EC
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
Parsimony pressure, the explicit penalization of larger programs, has been increasingly used as a means of controlling code growth in genetic programming. However, in many cases p...
GPEM
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
Abstract. This research examines the cause of code growth (bloat) in genetic programming (GP). Currently there are three hypothesized causes of code growth in GP: protection, drift...
EUROGP
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2003
Springer
This paper discusses the underlying pressures responsible for code growth in genetic programming, and shows how an understanding of these pressures can be used to use to eliminate...
GECCO
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
The authors employ multiple crossovers as a novel natural extension to crossovers as a mixing operator. They use this as a framework to explore the ideas of code growth. Empirical...
GECCO
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
In this paper we examine how the choice of functions in a genetic program (GP) affects the rate of code growth and the development of resilient individuals. We find that functio...
PLDI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Procedures have long been the basic units of compilation in conventional optimization frameworks. However, procedures are typically formed to serve software engineering rather tha...