Genetic Programming Theory & Practice XVI

University of Michigan • May 17-20, 2018

[tentative schedule subject to minor changes; check frequently and submit change requests via Slack!]

8:30a Coffee, juice, pastries, fruit
9:00a Opening Remarks
9:30a Katya Vladislavleva, CEO DataStories “Moonshot thinking and abundance mentality for better data science”
10:30a Break
11:00a Gabriel Kronberger, Lukas Kammerer, Bogdan Burlacu, Stephan Winkler, Michael Kommenda, and Michael Affenzeller “Cluster Analysis of a Symbolic Regression Search Space”
11:45a Discussion & Lunch in Room
1:00p Michael Korns and Timothy May “Strong Typing, Swarm Enhancement, and Deep Learning Feature Selection in the Pursuit of Symbolic Regression Classification Accuracy”
1:45p Fangkai Yang, Steven Gustafson, Alexander Elkholy, Daoming Lyu and Bo Liu “Program Search for Machine Learning Pipelines: Leveraging Symbolic Planning and Reinforcement Learning”
2:30p Discussion and Break
3:00p Andrew N. Sloss, Arm “Difficulties explaining Genetic Programming to an IP Semiconductor Company: A personal experience”
3:45p Leonardo Trujillo, Luis Muñoz, Uriel López and Daniel Hernández “Untapped Potential of Genetic Programming: Transfer Learning and Outlier Removal”
4:30p Discussion until End of Session
6:30p reconvene informally at various bars and restaurants

8:30a Coffee, juice, pastries, fruit
9:00a Walter Fontana, Harvard University “Actual causality in rule-based models”
10:30a Break
11:00a Michael O’Neill and David Fagan “The Elephant in the Room: Towards the Application of Genetic Programming to Automatic Programming”
11:45p Discussion & Lunch in Room
1:00p Blossom Metevier, Anil Kumar Saini and Lee Spector “Lexicase Selection Beyond GP: A SAT Study”
1:45p Alex Lalejini and Charles Ofria “What else is in an evolved name? Exploring Evolvable Specificity with SignalGP”
2:30p Discussion and Break
3:00p Emily Dolson, Alex Lalejini and Charles Ofria “Exploring Genetic Programming Systems with MAP-Elites”
3:45p Julian F. Miller, Dennis G. Wilson and Sylvain Cussat-Blanc “Evolving developmental programs that build neural networks for solving multiple problems”
4:30p Discussion until End of Session
6:30p reconvene informally at various bars and restaurants

8:30a Coffee, juice, pastries, fruit
9:00a Opening Remarks
9:30a Marco Tomassini, University of Lausanne “Strategic games: theory and human behavior”
10:30a Break
11:00a Bill Tozier “The Next GPTP Workshop(s)”
11:45p Discussion & Lunch in Room
1:00p Arend Hintze and Jory Schloss “The Evolutionary Buffet Method”
1:45p Stephen Kelly, Robert Smith and Malcolm I. Heywood “Emergent Policy Discovery for Visual Reinforcement Learning through Tangled Program Graphs: A Tutorial”
2:30p Discussion and Break
3:00p Kai Staats “Shake, Rattle, and Roll: A GP Practitioner’s Adventures in Astrophysics Data Analysis”
3:45p Tom Schmiedlechner, Abdullah Al-Dujaili, Una-May O’Reilly and Erik Hemberg “Distributed Coevolutionary Learning in Generative Adversarial Networks”
4:30p Discussion until End of Session
6:30p reconvene informally at various bars and restaurants

8:30a Coffee, juice, pastries, fruit
9:00a Cliff Bohm “Developing standards and methodologies to bridge digital evolution research: A case study”
9:45a LIGHTNING TALKS (~15 minutes each)
12:30p Discussion & Lunch in Room
2:00p OFFICIAL END OF WORKSHOP
3:00p reconvene informally at various bars and restaurants