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Neutrality: A Necessity for Self-Adaptation

Marc Toussaint, Christian Igel

nlin.AOarXiv:nlin/0204038

Abstract

Self-adaptation is used in all main paradigms of evolutionary computation to increase efficiency. We claim that the basis of self-adaptation is the use of neutrality. In the absence of external control neutrality allows a variation of the search distribution without the risk of fitness loss.

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