# On the Effectiveness of Genetic Operations in Symbolic Regression

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10661 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.10661/

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- First posted on arXiv 24 Aug 2021.

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper describes a methodology for analyzing the evolutionary dynamics of genetic programming (GP) using genealogical information, diversity measures and information about the fitness variation from parent to offspring. We introduce a new subtree tracing approach for identifying the origins of genes in the structure of individuals, and we show that only a small fraction of ancestor individuals are responsible for the evolvement of the best solutions in the population.