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Don’t evaluate, inherit

12 July 2001

Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E., Pelikan, M. (2001). Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 551—558. [Full paper - PDF] [Full paper - PS] [Presentation slides].


Abstract:
This paper studies fitness inheritance as an efficiency enhancement technique for genetic and evolutionary algorithms. Convergence and population-sizing models are derived and compared with experimental results. These models are optimized for greatest speed-up and the optimal inheritance proportion to obtain such a speed-up is derived. Results on OneMax problems show that when the inheritance effects are considered in the population-sizing model, the number of function evaluations are reduced by 20% with the use of fitness inheritance. Results indicate that for a fixed population size, the number of function evaluations can be reduced by 70% using a simple fitness inheritance technique.


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