I added some of my notes about coevolutionary algorithmscoevolutionary algorithms
A part of complexity science that deals directly with nature-inspired evolutionary processes involving interaction in the fitness function. A definition I've used in the past is that these algorith... mainly to experiment with this web site but also to state an idea:
A coevolutionary algorithm application should specify:
- An interactive domain
- A solution concept
- An evolutionary dynamics over the interactive domain
I'm glossing evolutionary dynamics but maybe someday I'll put some notes up about those; there is a lot to say about monotonic solution conceptsmonotonic solution concepts
A subclass of solution conceptssolution concepts
There is a lot to say about these, but primarily I am coming from the perspective of coevolutionary algorithmscoevolutionary algorithms
A part of complexity science that deals directly with nature-inspired evolutionary processes involving interaction in the fitness function. A definition I've used in the past is that these algorith... theory, where the notion is meant to be "arg min for [[interactive domains]]". Bel... arising in the theory of coevolutionary algorithmscoevolutionary algorithms
A part of complexity science that deals directly with nature-inspired evolutionary processes involving interaction in the fitness function. A definition I've used in the past is that these algorith.... There are technical definitions, and I'll add my own below, but the gist is that with a monotonic solutio... and coevolutionary free lunchescoevolutionary free lunches
Refers to the general idea that for a fixed class of problems, there can be coevolutionary algorithmscoevolutionary algorithms
A part of complexity science that deals directly with nature-inspired evolutionary processes involving interaction in the fitness function. A definition I've used in the past is that these algorith... that perform better than others on all instances of that class. It is an extension of a ser.... After finishing graduate school I have focused more on interactive domainsinteractive domains
A collection of one or more functions, called metrics, of the form $p\colon X_1\times X_2\times\cdots\times X_n\rightarrow R$, where
each $i$ with $1\leq i\leq n$ is a domain role
an element $... and solution conceptssolution concepts
There is a lot to say about these, but primarily I am coming from the perspective of coevolutionary algorithmscoevolutionary algorithms
A part of complexity science that deals directly with nature-inspired evolutionary processes involving interaction in the fitness function. A definition I've used in the past is that these algorith... theory, where the notion is meant to be "arg min for [[interactive domains]]". Bel..., because these are applicable beyond coevolutionary algorithmscoevolutionary algorithms
A part of complexity science that deals directly with nature-inspired evolutionary processes involving interaction in the fitness function. A definition I've used in the past is that these algorith.... The papers on coevolutionary free lunchescoevolutionary free lunches
Refers to the general idea that for a fixed class of problems, there can be coevolutionary algorithmscoevolutionary algorithms
A part of complexity science that deals directly with nature-inspired evolutionary processes involving interaction in the fitness function. A definition I've used in the past is that these algorith... that perform better than others on all instances of that class. It is an extension of a ser... are algorithm agnostic. When working on them we often talked about the class of co-optimization algorithms–a term Travis Service coined in his Master's thesis meant to be a superclass of coevolutionary algorithmscoevolutionary algorithms
A part of complexity science that deals directly with nature-inspired evolutionary processes involving interaction in the fitness function. A definition I've used in the past is that these algorith...–wherein algorithms could have dynamics that follow gradients, move randomly, or do something else without the mutation/recombination/evaluation/selection cycle that evolutionary dynamics have. The pitfalls and traps apparent in coevolutionary algorithmscoevolutionary algorithms
A part of complexity science that deals directly with nature-inspired evolutionary processes involving interaction in the fitness function. A definition I've used in the past is that these algorith... can also afflict other co-optimization algorithms, because these issue arise from misalignment between the dynamics and the solution concept.
In any event, an application of coevolutionary algorithmscoevolutionary algorithms
A part of complexity science that deals directly with nature-inspired evolutionary processes involving interaction in the fitness function. A definition I've used in the past is that these algorith... that does not explicitly state the interactive domain and the solution concept of interest is dubious from the start. It would be like saying you are going to apply optimization, but then not tell us what function you're optimizing nor whether you're minimizing or maximizing it. Obviously one does not have to use the formalized language that I prefer personally, but these two components should be stated clearly and precisely. That's the idea.
For several years I've been interested in the idea of state as an emergent phenomenon, and I may start uploading notes about that next. By "state" I mean some formal version of what you mean when you say something like "this machine is in an idle state". In computer science you tend to see formal constructs meant to capture this idea such as finite state machines defined with language like "Let $S$ be the set of states, …". In other words, the states the machine can be in are already given and collected into a set. While that is a good thing to do when you're designing a machine, there is more to the story.
It turns out that in some cases you can deduce the (observable) states of a system, given only traces of behavior through it. To put that in plainer language: just by tinkering with the system, you can learn what the internal states of it are, even if you have no information about its internal design when you start. I think this is pretty neat. It allows you to draw connections between weird artifacts like finite state machines and more familiar notions of space, geometry, and dynamical systems. It changes your point of view to thinking about learning and discovery, as opposed to design. It shines a different light on computer science results like the Myhill-Nerode theorem or Hopcroft's algorithm. Anyway!
