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Benchmarks. That’s one of the big problems in the field; since it’s so hard to get people to agree on what we’re even trying to accomplish with an evolutionary

Benchmarks. That’s one of the big problems in the field; since it’s so hard to get people to agree on what we’re even trying to accomplish with an evolutionary search heuristic, it’s difficult to measure performance objectively.

verdverm 2y ago
Yup, methods and reproducibility as you have also mentioned. My work focused on Symbolic Regression, the problem, which I tried to separate from Genetic Programming, the algorithm. The literature refers to SR as the algorithm, but I think that is incorrect. I wrote a deterministic algorithm Prioritized Grammar Enumeration and put my code & data on github. https://github.com/verdverm/pypge https://github.com/verdverm/pypge (pdf there too, don't tell ACM)
- sevensor 2y ago
  Thanks, I’ll have a look!
  - sevensor 2y ago
    Determinism is interesting; I’ve often wondered how much benefit we actually obtain from pseudo-randomness, versus it being a way of coping with the fact that we don’t really have a convincing account of why GAs work.