David Landaeta

David Landaeta

Motivated by a desire to improve on the current state of the art in genetic programming, and aided by recent progress in understanding the computational aspects of evolutionary systems, we describe a process that creates a set of generic computational building blocks for the purpose of seeding initial populations of programs in any genetic programming system. This provides an advantage over the standard approach of initializing the population purely randomly in that it avoids the need to constantly rediscover such building blocks. It is also better than seeding the initial population with hand-coded building blocks, since it lessens the amount of human intervention required by the system.

David Landaeta

We introduce the perceptron Turing machine and show how it can be used to create a system of neuroevolution. Advantages of this approach include automatic scaling of solutions to larger problem sizes, the ability to experiment with hand-coded solutions, and an enhanced potential for understanding evolved solutions. Hand-coded solutions may be implemented in the low-level language of Turing machines, which is the genotype used in neuroevolution, but a high-level language called Lopro is introduced to make the job easier.