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Publications (7)

cs.NE2025

A Performance Analysis of Lexicase-Based and Traditional Selection Methods in GP for Symbolic Regression

Alina Geiger, Dominik Sobania, Franz Rothlauf

In recent years, several new lexicase-based selection variants have emerged due to the success of standard lexicase selection in various application domains. For symbolic regressio…

cs.NE2023

Down-Sampled Epsilon-Lexicase Selection for Real-World Symbolic Regression Problems

Alina Geiger, Dominik Sobania, Franz Rothlauf

Epsilon-lexicase selection is a parent selection method in genetic programming that has been successfully applied to symbolic regression problems. Recently, the combination of rand…

cs.SE2026

SkillMOO: Multi-Objective Optimization of Agent Skills for Software Engineering

Jingzhi Gong, Ruizhen Gu, Zhiwei Fei +7

Agent skills are increasingly used to configure coding agents for software engineering (SE) tasks, yet current practice treats them as static, hand-crafted assets, or evolved on pa…

cs.NE2025

Was Tournament Selection All We Ever Needed? A Critical Reflection on Lexicase Selection

Alina Geiger, Martin Briesch, Dominik Sobania +1

The success of lexicase selection has led to various extensions, including its combination with down-sampling, which further increased performance. However, recent work found that…

cs.NE2026

ROIDS: Robust Outlier-Aware Informed Down-Sampling

Alina Geiger, Martin Briesch, Dominik Sobania +1

Informed down-sampling (IDS) is known to improve performance in symbolic regression when combined with various selection strategies, especially tournament selection. However, recen…

cs.SE2025

LLM-Guided Genetic Improvement: Envisioning Semantic Aware Automated Software Evolution

Karine Even-Mendoza, Alexander Brownlee, Alina Geiger +4

Genetic Improvement (GI) of software automatically creates alternative software versions that are improved according to certain properties of interests (e.g., running-time). Search…