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Genetic programming without fitness

1996, Late Breaking Papers at the Genetic Programming …

Abstract

This paper provides a short, informal illustration of a selection scheme based on the key idea of competition, particularly suited for genetic programming, which provides a way to do without the explicit de nition of a tness function. In many tasks, competition between two individuals on one problem instance chosen according to some probability can be a valid alternative to de ning an appropriate tness function that includes a priori knowledge of the problem, which requires insights on the problem along with some mathematical skills.