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What if you GA the algorithm itself? Such that GA converges on hill climbing (or something better, if it exists) as the best technique to use.
by Xcelerate 13y ago
What if you GA the algorithm itself? Such that GA converges on hill climbing (or something better, if it exists) as the best technique to use.
- jules 13y agoI suppose you're talking about genetic programming? That is wildly optimistic. Genetic programming can't find anything except the most trivial programs.
- Houshalter 13y agoThat's been tried before. It's theoretically possible, but unless you have a ton of computing power and example problems to work on, it'd probably just overfit to the specific problems you train it on. And as the other comment pointed out, genetic programming is far too weak to achieve anything this complex. You need to simplify the problem tremendously by hand and then have the computer optimize the last few bits. Though seeding existing metaheuristics to start with might work.