The mixture of trees Factorized Distribution Algorithm
Roberto Santana, Alberto Ochoa-Rodríguez, Marta Soto · 2001
This paper introduces a Factorized Distribution Algorithm based on a mixture of trees distribution. The probabilistic model and the learning algorithm used differs to previous uses of probabilistic modeling in the context of Evolutionary Computation. Preliminary results show the algorithm is competitive, and some times superior to other Factorized Distribution Algorithms. We also illustrate how particular features of the search space can be employed during the search by conveniently selecting the mixture of trees parameters.