13 July 2012

Admin

  • GECCO receipts – get to Lee with signed forms

GECCO thoughts

  • Our talks were well-received
  • Maarten Keijzer ideas: Push Fourth (one stack), Bad Hash Function (tag based on content)
  • GP best paper may be related to our work
  • Discussion of GP as optimization vs. program induction
  • Discussion of automatic software repair and Simon Harding’s multi-type Cartesian genetic programming.
  • Emma: could see GP as a front-facing part of other hybrid ML algorithms, or as an exploratory technique to understand data better, as opposed to a last-ditch effort when other things don’t work.

Steady-state GP

  • Lee gave a description
  • We may be interested in trying out steady-state PushGP
  • Also, not sure of relation to ALPS (Age-layered population structure)

Rewarding Tag Usage

  • Kwaku and Emma plan to investigate rewarding tags
  • Encouraging modularity explicitly in the fitness function may be useful
  • Difficult to know what to reward
  • Other tag ideas include a shared tag-space in the whole population, or hereditary tag spaces

Blog

  • Emma wants to start a blog to encourage communication with the rest of the EC community about issues we think are important
  • May concentrate on understanding problems

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