This paper presents a competent selectomutative genetic algorithm (GA), that adapts linkage and solves hard problems quickly, reliably, and accurately. A probabilistic model building process is used to automatically identify key building blocks (BBs) of the search problem. The mutation operator uses the probabilistic model of linkage groups to find the best among competing building blocks. The competent selectomutative GA successfully solves additively separable problems of bounded difficulty, requiring only subquadratic number of function evaluations. The results show that for additively separable problems the probabilistic model building BB-wise mutation scales as script O sign(2km1.5), and requires script O sign (√k log m) less function evaluations than its selectorecombinative counterpart, confirming theoretical results reported elsewhere [1]. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.
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Sastry, K., & Goldberg, D. E. (2004). Designing competent mutation operators via probabilistic model building of neighborhoods. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 3103, 114–125. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24855-2_11
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