Continuous Schemes for Program Evolution
Cyril Fonlupt, Denis Robilliard, Virginie Marion-Poty · InTech eBooks · 2012
Will-be-set-by- IN-TECH program is represented by a float vector that is translated to a linear sequence of imperative instructions, alaLGP.The chapter is organized in the following way.The first section introduces the Differential Evolution and CMA Evolution Strategy schemes, focusing on the similarities and main differences.We then present our continuous schemes, LDEP and CMA-LEP, respectively based on DE and CMA-ES.We show that these schemes are easily implementable as plug-ins for DE and CMA-ES.In Section 4, we compare the performance of these two schemes, and also traditional GP, over a range of benchmarks. Continuous evolutionary schemesIn this section we present DE and CMA-ES, that form the main components of the evolutionary algorithms used in our experiments.