Component Thermodynamical Selection Based Gene Expression Programming for Function Finding

Zhaolu Guo, Zhijian Wu, Xiaojian Dong, Kejun Zhang, Shenwen Wang and Yuanxiang Li

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2014, vol. 2014, 1-16

Abstract:

Gene expression programming (GEP), improved genetic programming (GP), has become a popular tool for data mining. However, like other evolutionary algorithms, it tends to suffer from premature convergence and slow convergence rate when solving complex problems. In this paper, we propose an enhanced GEP algorithm, called CTSGEP, which is inspired by the principle of minimal free energy in thermodynamics. In CTSGEP, it employs a component thermodynamical selection (CTS) operator to quantitatively keep a balance between the selective pressure and the population diversity during the evolution process. Experiments are conducted on several benchmark datasets from the UCI machine learning repository. The results show that the performance of CTSGEP is better than the conventional GEP and some GEP variations.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1155/2014/915058

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