Tiebreaks and Diversity: Isolating Effects in Lexicase Selection

Jared M. Moore, Adam Stanton

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    Abstract

    A primary goal of evolutionary robotics (ER) is generalized control. That is, a robot controller should be capable of solving a variety of tasks in a domain, rather than only addressing specific instances of a task. Prior work has shown that Lexicase selection is more effective than other evolutionary algorithms for a wall crossing task domain where quadrupedal animats are evaluated on walls of varying height. In this work we expand baseline treatments in this task domain and examine specific aspects of the Lexicase selection algorithm across a variety of different parameter configurations. We identify the most effective Lexicase parameters for this task. Results indicate that Lexicase’s success is potentially due to maintaining population diversity at a higher level than other algorithms explored for this domain.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe 2018 Conference on Artificial Life
    Number of pages8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2018
    Event2018 Conference on Artificial Life: Beyond AI - Tokyo, Japan
    Duration: 23 Jul 201827 Jul 2018

    Conference

    Conference2018 Conference on Artificial Life
    Abbreviated titleALIFE 2018
    Country/TerritoryJapan
    CityTokyo
    Period23/07/1827/07/18

    Bibliographical note

    © 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

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