In plain words: Genetic programming evolves programs by trial and error; here each program's output becomes a polynomial showing how it changes, so errors can be pushed backward to tune its constants. It recovered exact formulas and constant values on symbolic regression tasks and solved differential equations.
Abstract · Differentiable Genetic Programming
We introduce the use of high order automatic differentiation, implemented via the algebra of truncated Taylor polynomials, in genetic programming. Using the Cartesian Genetic Programming encoding we obtain a high-order Taylor representation of the program output that is then used to back-propagate errors during learning. The resulting machine learning framework is called differentiable Cartesian Genetic Programming (dCGP). In the context of symbolic regression, dCGP offers a new approach to the long unsolved problem of constant representation in GP expressions. On several problems of increasing complexity we find that dCGP is able to find the exact form of the symbolic expression as well as the constants values. We also demonstrate the use of dCGP to solve a large class of differential equations and to find prime integrals of dynamical systems, presenting, in both cases, results that confirm the efficacy of our approach.
Dario Izzo, Francesco Biscani, Alessio Mereta
arXiv:1611.04766 · cs.NE · submitted Nov 15, 2016
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