Abstract
I describe a distance metric called "edit"
distance which quantifies the syntactic difference
between two genetic programs. In the context of one
specific problem, the 6 bit multiplexor, I use the
metric to analyze the amount of new material introduced
by different crossover operators, the difference among
the best individuals of a population and the difference
among the best individuals and the rest of the
population. The relationships between these data and
run performance are imprecise but they are sufficiently
interesting to encourage further investigation into the
use of edit distance.
- algorithms,
- best
- crossover
- difference,
- distance
- distance,
- edit
- genetic
- individuals,
- metric,
- multiplexor,
- operators,
- performance,
- population,
- programming
- programming,
- programs,
- representation
- run
- search,
- size
- syntactic
- trees
- variable
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