Does constraining the search space of GA always help?: the case of balanced crossover operators

Abstract

In this paper, we undertake an investigation on the effect of balanced and unbalanced crossover operators against the problem of finding non-linear balanced Boolean functions: we consider three different balanced crossover operators and compare their performances with classic one-point crossover. The statistical comparison shows that the use of balanced crossover operators gives GA a definite advantage over one-point crossover.

Publication
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, July 13-17, 2019, Companion Material Proceedings
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