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Evolution of Size

W. B. Langdon

School of Computer Science,

The University of Birmingham, UK

• What is Bloat?
• Why do I Care?
• Fitness Causes Bloat
• Two Tree Mutation Operators
• Distribution of Size Changes
• The Ant Problem
• All Techniques Can Evolve Ants
• Random Bloats? Random Length Doesn't?
• Bloat in Populations
• Increasing Intron Protection with Size
• Conclusions
• Future Work
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