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Evolutionary and genetic algorithms (EAs and GAs) are quite successful randomized function optimizers. This success is mainly based on the interaction of different operators like selection, mutation, and crossover. Since this interaction is still not well understood, one is interested in the analysis of the single operators. Jansen and Wegener (2001a) have described so-called real royal road functions where simple steady-state GAs have a polynomial expected optimization time while the success probability of mutation-based EAs is exponentially small even after an exponential number of steps. This success of the GA is based on the crossover operator and a population whose size is moderately increasing with the dimension of the search space. Here new real royal road functions are presented where crossover leads to a small optimization time, although the GA works with the smallest possible population size — namely 2.
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Storch, T., Wegener, I. (2003). Real Royal Road Functions for Constant Population Size. In: Cantú-Paz, E., et al. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation — GECCO 2003. GECCO 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2724. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45110-2_14
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