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Evolutionary Computation

2019· reference-entry· en· W4248338987 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

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Typereference-entry
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicEvolutionary Algorithms and Applications
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceEvolutionary computationBenchmark (surveying)Evolutionary algorithmHeuristicSelection (genetic algorithm)ComputationInteractive evolutionary computationEvolution strategyEvolutionary programmingArtificial intelligenceMachine learningTheoretical computer scienceAlgorithm

Abstract

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Evolutionary computation (EC) is the area of computer science and engineering that concerns itself with algorithms derived from formalizing natural evolution. This is part of a larger effort to draw inspiration from biological systems for computational purposes. Evolutionary computation methods have been used to solve optimization problems, to model systems, and to recognize patterns among other application tasks. Due to their reliance on stochasticity, they are characterized as heuristic search methods. The main features of evolutionary computation methods are their reliance on populations of searchers, the stochasticity of the search processes through mutation and recombination operations, and the application of relative strength as their selection criterion. The principle of cumulative selection allows searchers to continuously improve solutions until predefined termination criteria for the algorithms are fulfilled. The literature on evolutionary computation is comprised of a large body of proposals for algorithmic variants including hybridization schemes with other algorithms; of theoretical examinations of convergence features and other characteristics of particular variants; and of empirical studies of their performance under various testing environments, which are either constructed artificially or taken from practical applications to benchmark these variants. Furthermore, individual practical applications are published as stand-alone contributions to various fields of engineering, science, and other disciplines. Besides explicit fitness, the selection criteria for solution quality driven by external purposes like particular applications, other algorithms are studied under intrinsic selection criteria like reproductive success in an environment. Algorithms of this type come under the heading of digital or computational evolution and intend to more closely model the natural systems EC algorithms draw inspiration from. This entails studies of robustness and evolvability under various systems settings, as well as examinations of the power of algorithms to provide creative novel solutions under more-natural conditions like in an ecosystem.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.209
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.267
Teacher spread0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2019
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