3 papers
cs.NE2026
All Constant Mutation Rates for the Evolutionary Algorithm
Andrew James Kelley
For every mutation rate , and for all , there is a fitness function with a unique maximum for which the optimal mutati…
cs.NE2026
All Mutation Rates for the Evolutionary Algorithm
Andrew James Kelley
For every real number and for all , there is a fitness function for which the optimal mutation rate for the evolu…
cs.NE2024
The Runtime of Random Local Search on the Generalized Needle Problem
Benjamin Doerr, Andrew James Kelley
In their recent work, C. Doerr and Krejca (Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2023) proved upper bounds on the expected runtime of the randomized local search heuristic on g…