BUILDING-BLOCK SUPPLY IN GENETIC PROGRAMMING

This paper analyzes building block supply in the initial population for genetic programming. Facetwise models for the supply of a single schema as well as for the supply of all schemas in a partition are developed. An estimate for the population size, given the size (or size distribution) of trees, that ensures the presence of all raw building blocks with a given error is derived using these facetwise models. The facetwise models and the population sizing estimate are verified with empirical results.

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