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Copyright 2005-2007, Moshe Looks and Novamente LLC

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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Overview

Meta-optimizing semantic evolutionary search (MOSES) is a new approach to program evolution, based on representation-building and probabilistic modeling. MOSES has been successfully applied to solve hard problems in domains such as computational biology, sentiment evaluation, and agent control. Results tend to be more accurate, and require less objective function evaluations, in comparison to other program evolution systems. Best of all, the result of running MOSES is not a large nested structure or numerical vector, but a compact and comprehensible program written in a simple Lisp-like mini-language. For more information see http://metacog.org/doc.html .

The Code

The code for reproducing all of the published experiments on MOSES (see below) may be found in the moses/ subdirectory. A more nicely architected and performant implementation that is under active development may be found in the moses2/ subdirectory. These two directories are completely independent and use no common files (although identical versions of some files may be found in both subdirectories).

Installation

Go into either moses/ or moses2/ (see above) and do 'make'. You will need to have a recent gcc (4.x or late 3.x) and the boost libraries installed (http://www.boost.org).

Publications on MOSES

  1. Moshe Looks, "Scalable Estimation-of-Distribution Program Evolution", Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO), 2007.

  2. Moshe Looks, "On the Behavioral Diversity of Random Programs", Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO), 2007.

  3. Moshe Looks, "Meta-Optimizing Semantic Evolutionary Search", Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO), 2007.

  4. Moshe Looks, Ben Goertzel, Lucio de Souza Coelho, Mauricio Mudado, and Cassio Pennachin,"Clustering Gene Expression Data via Mining Ensembles of Classification Rules Evolved Using MOSES", Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO), 2007.

  5. Moshe Looks, Ben Goertzel, Lucio de Souza Coelho, Mauricio Mudado, and Cassio Pennachin, "Understanding Microarray Data through Applying Competent Program Evolution", Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO),

  7. Moshe Looks, "Competent Program Evolution" Doctoral Dissertation, Washington University in St. Louis, 2006.

  8. Moshe Looks, "Program Evolution for General Intelligence", Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute Workshop (AGIRI), 2006.