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A General Approach to Automatic Programming Using Occam's Razor, Compression, and Self-Inspection

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Genetic and Evolutionary Computation -- GECCO-2003, volume 2724 of LNCS, page 1806--1807. Chicago, Springer-Verlag, (12-16 July 2003)

Abstract

general method for automatic programming which can be seen as a generalization of techniques such as genetic programming and ADATE. The approach builds on the assumption that data compression can be used as a metaphor for cognition and intelligence. The proof-of-concept system is evaluated on sequence prediction problems. As a starting point, the process of inferring a general law from a data set is viewed as an attempt to compress the observed data. From an artificial intelligence point of view, compression is a useful way of measuring how deeply the observed data is understood. If the sequence contains redundancy it exists a shorter description i.e. the sequence can be compressed.

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