Neutrality: A Necessity for Self-Adaptation

04/16/2002

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by   Marc Toussaint, et al.

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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.