Evolutionary Dataset Optimisation: learning algorithm quality through evolution

07/31/2019
by   Henry Wilde, et al.
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In this paper we propose a new method for learning how algorithms perform. Classically, algorithms are compared on a finite number of existing (or newly simulated) benchmark data sets based on some fixed metrics. The algorithm(s) with the smallest value of this metric are chosen to be the `best performing'. We offer a new approach to flip this paradigm. We instead aim to gain a richer picture of the performance of an algorithm by generating artificial data through genetic evolution, the purpose of which is to create populations of datasets for which a particular algorithm performs well. These data sets can be studied to learn as to what attributes lead to a particular progress of a given algorithm. Following a detailed description of the algorithm as well as a brief description of an open source implementation, a number of numeric experiments are presented to show the performance of the method which we call Evolutionary Dataset Optimisation.

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