Neutrality: A Necessity for Self-Adaptation
<|reference_start|>Neutrality: A Necessity for Self-Adaptation: 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.<|reference_end|>
@article{toussaint2002neutrality:,
    title={Neutrality: A Necessity for Self-Adaptation},
    author={Marc Toussaint and Christian Igel},
    journal={Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC
  2002), 1354-1359.},
    year={2002},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={nlin/0204038},
    primaryClass={nlin.AO cs.NE q-bio}
}