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Model-based Genetic Programming with GOMEA for Symbolic Regression of Small Expressions

04/03/2019
by   Marco Virgolin, et al.
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The Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithm (GOMEA) has been shown to be a top performing EA in several domains, including Genetic Programming (GP). Differently from traditional EAs where variation acts randomly, GOMEA learns a model of interdependencies within the genotype, i.e., the linkage, to estimate what patterns to propagate. In this article, we study the role of Linkage Learning (LL) performed by GOMEA in Symbolic Regression (SR). We show that the non-uniformity in the distribution of the genotype in GP populations negatively biases LL, and propose a method to correct for this. We also propose approaches to improve LL when ephemeral random constants are used. Furthermore, we adapt a scheme of interleaving runs to alleviate the burden of tuning the population size, a crucial parameter for LL, to SR. We run experiments on 10 real-world datasets, enforcing a strict limitation on solution size, to enable interpretability. We find that the new LL method outperforms the standard one, and that GOMEA outperforms both traditional and semantic GP. We also find that the small solutions evolved by GOMEA are competitive with tuned decision trees, making GOMEA a promising new approach to SR.

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