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Closed 9 years ago

#2472 closed enhancement (done)

Create HeuristicLab.Problems.GeneticProgramming

Reported by: gkronber Owned by: gkronber
Priority: medium Milestone: HeuristicLab 3.3.13
Component: Problems.GeneticProgramming Version: 3.3.12
Keywords: Cc:

Description (last modified by gkronber)

This plugin should hold GP problems such as the aritificial ant or the lawn mower problem.

This ticket replaces individual tickets #2421, #2422, and #2469

For integration into stable merge the following changesets:

Change History (32)

comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

  • Component changed from ### Undefined ### to Problems.GeneticProgramming
  • Status changed from new to accepted

comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

changesets originally commited to #2469: r12897: added SymbolicExpressionTreeProblem base class r12904: implemented override for Analyze(...) method in SymbolicExpressionTreeProblem

r12911: created project structure for HeuristicLab.Problems.GeneticProgramming and added implementations of ArtificialAnt and LawnMower

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comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r12912: svn:ignore

comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

  • Description modified (diff)

comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r12915:

  • include Problems.GeneticProgramming in solution
  • use Problems.GeneticProgramming from Problems.GrammaticalEvolution (only ArtificialAnt part)
  • simplified GEArtificialAntProblem by using BasicProblem<IntegerVectorEncoding>

comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r12916:

  • deleted unused files
  • removed createable attribute from outdated implementation of GrammaticalEvolution problems

comment:7 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

  • Description modified (diff)

r12917:12918: removed deleted projects from solution

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comment:8 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

  • Description modified (diff)

comment:9 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

I left the SymbolicExpressionTreeProblem in the encoding plugin because I believe it fits better there (as a potential base class for all problems using the symbolic expression tree encoding). It is not strictly necessary to include a reference to Problems.GeneticProgramming.

comment:10 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r12921: update best solution only if a solution with a better best quality is found

comment:11 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r12936:12937 added an implementation of Koza-style symbolic regression as BasicProblem to Problems.GeneticProgramming

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comment:12 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r12938: added even parity and multiplexer problems (GP)

comment:13 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r12940: minor fix in multiplexer problem

comment:14 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r12947: removed unnecessary Filename property

comment:15 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

  • Owner changed from gkronber to mkommend
  • Status changed from accepted to reviewing

comment:16 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

  • Owner changed from mkommend to gkronber
  • Status changed from reviewing to assigned

The samples (artificial ant, lawn mower, and multiplexer) should be updated. (Done)

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comment:17 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

  • r13055: changed ordering of symbols in the grammar for the artificial ant problem to make sure the new problem produces the same results as the old implementation
  • r13056: changed GP artificial ant sample to use new implementation

comment:18 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r13057: changed lawn mower sample to use the new implementation and added assertions for the results of the unit test (let's see if they work on the builder...)

comment:19 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r13058: fixed lawn mower sample

comment:20 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r13163 (sorry this commit messages incorrectly references #2069, but it was not possible to edit the svn log message afterwards)

  • adapted the multiplexer sample to use the specific implementation of the multiplexer problem instead of symbolic regression.
  • Added best known solutions for the Boolean benchmark problems
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comment:21 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

  • Owner changed from gkronber to mkommend
  • Status changed from assigned to reviewing

all changesets mentioned in the comments are relevant but probably it is best to review the code in

  • HeuristicLab.Problems.GeneticProgramming and
  • HeuristicLab.Problems.GeneticProgramming.Views

comment:22 follow-up: Changed 9 years ago by mkommend

Reviewed the SymbolicExpressionTreeProblem and HL.Problems.GP and the according views and unit test for sample creation.

Comments:

  • Odd source code organization (cloning and persistence in a region at the EOF)
  • BasicSymbolicRegression
    • Recreates constants every time the problem is changed => not reproducible
    • Couldn't the solution be transformed to a standard data analysis tree (simplify, optimize?
  • Why are the boolean problems restricted (number of bits) and why is this done in the evaluation function?

Overall pretty cool and easy to implement problems. I am especially impressed on how easy tree evaluation can be performed for the boolean and regression problems.

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comment:23 Changed 9 years ago by mkommend

r13267: Minor code improvements in HL.Problems.GP (typos, code organization, code unification).

comment:24 Changed 9 years ago by mkommend

  • Owner changed from mkommend to gkronber
  • Status changed from reviewing to assigned

comment:25 Changed 9 years ago by mkommend

  • Owner changed from gkronber to mkommend
  • Status changed from assigned to reviewing

r13269: Moved cloning and persistence code near the default ctor for all new GP problems.

comment:26 Changed 9 years ago by mkommend

  • Owner changed from mkommend to gkronber
  • Status changed from reviewing to readytorelease

comment:27 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

Thanks for code reorganization. I'm going to create tickets for your remaining remarks from the review.

comment:28 in reply to: ↑ 22 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

Replying to mkommend:

Reviewed the SymbolicExpressionTreeProblem and HL.Problems.GP and the according views and unit test for sample creation.

Comments:

  • Odd source code organization (cloning and persistence in a region at the EOF)

Fixed with r13269.

  • BasicSymbolicRegression
    • Recreates constants every time the problem is changed => not reproducible
    • Couldn't the solution be transformed to a standard data analysis tree (simplify, optimize?

Might be fixed in the future (-> separate tickets #2515, #2517)

  • Why are the boolean problems restricted (number of bits) and why is this done in the evaluation function?

In the case of the even-parity problem the restriction stems from the fact that only digits are used as terminal symbols and there are only 10 digits. Would be easy to extend this.

In the case of the mux-problem I don't remember the exact reason but I believe this is an artifact from an earlier implementation where only digits and characters were used as terminal symbols. In any case the limit of 37 bits input is rather large and would mean that a single evaluation would have to iterate over 237 different input cases... I'm going to create a ticket for this (#2516).

Overall pretty cool and easy to implement problems. I am especially impressed on how easy tree evaluation can be performed for the boolean and regression problems.

Last edited 9 years ago by gkronber (previous) (diff)

comment:29 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r13278: merged r12895:12906 from trunk to stable

comment:30 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

r13279: merged r12911:12912, r12915:12918 from trunk to stable

Last edited 9 years ago by gkronber (previous) (diff)

comment:31 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

comment:32 Changed 9 years ago by gkronber

  • Resolution set to done
  • Status changed from readytorelease to closed
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