Schedule

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We normally start at 9:00 am on the first day, that is June 6, 2024, and end after lunch on the last day, that is June 8, 2024.

GPTP-2024 will be held at the main campus of University of Michigan, Weiser Hall, 10th floor, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor.

Thursday, June 6, 2024

• 8:30a Coffee, juice, pastries, fruit
• 9:00a Opening Remarks
• 9:15a Keynote by Allison Earl (University of Michigan, Psychology): “Principles of Persuasion: What changes minds”
• 10:00a Break/Discussion/Coffee
• 10:30a Mark Kotanchek (Evolved Analytics): “Representation and reachability: assumption impact in data modeling”
• 11:00a Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington): “EvoFeat: genetic programming-based feature engineering approach to tabular data classification”
• 11:30a Lightning Talks:
  • 11:30a Erik Hemberg (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab): “Survey of genetic programming and large language models”
  • 11:45a Stephen Kelly (McMaster University): “Evolving Multi-Domain Problem Solvers”
• 12:00p Discussion
• 12:30p Lunch
• 2:00p Lightning Talks:
  • 2:00p Moshe Sipper (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): “Deep learning-based operators for evolutionary algorithms”
  • 2:15p Nuno Lourenço (University of Coimbra, CISUC/LASI, DEI): “Automatic design of autoencoders using neuroevolution”
• 2:30p Discussion:
  • Universal GP implementations
  • Standards for GP components
  • GP and Deep Learning
• 3:30a Coffee/Break
• 4:00p Lightning Talks:
  • 4:00p Edward Pantridge (Spindle Health): “Code building genetic programming is fast”
  • 4:15p Illya Bakurov (Michigan State University): “Sharpness-aware minimization in genetic programming”
  • 4:30p Oscar Garnica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): “Tree-based grammatical evolution with non-encoding nodes”
• 4:45p Closing Discussion

Friday, June 7, 2024

• 8:30a Coffee, juice, pastries, fruit
• 9:00a Keynote by Maria Rebolleda (University of California, Irvine): “Engineering ecology, shaping the environment to shape microbial function”
• 10:00a Discussion/Coffee/Break
• 10:30a Lukas Sekanina (Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology): “Genetic Programming with Memory for Approximate Data Reconstruction”
• 11:00a Lee Spector (Amherst College): “Ratcheted random search for self-programming boolean networks”
• 11:30a Leonardo Vanneschi (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): “Exploring Non-Bloating Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming”
• 12:00p Discussion
• 12:30p Lunch
• 2:00p Lightning Talks:
  • 2:00p Bogdan Burlacu (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, HEAL): “Gradient-based Local Search in Symbolic Regression”
  • 2:15p Chris Crary (University of Florida): “It’s Time to Revisit the Use of FPGAs for Genetic Programming”
  • 2:30p Yuri Lavinas (University of Toulouse): “Interpretable genetic programming models for real-world biomedical data”
  • 2:45p Stephan Winkler (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Bioinformatics): “How to measure explainability and interpretability of machine learning results”
• 3:00p Discussion/Coffee/Break
• 4:00p Lightning Talks:
  • 4:00p Erik Fredericks (Grand Valley State University): “Crafting generative art through genetic improvement: managing creative outputs in diverse fitness landscape”
  • 4:15p Anselmo Pontes (Autogenetics Reseach Lab): “Cell Regulation and the Early Evolution of Autonomous Control”
• 4:30p Closing Discussion

Saturday, June 8, 2024

• 8:30a Coffee, juice, pastries, fruit
• 9:00a Keynote by Kamaludin Dingle (Gulf University for Science & Technology): “Simplicity Bias, Algorithmic Probability, and Biological Evolution”
• 10:00a Discussion/Coffee/Break
• 10:30a Jose Guadalupe Hernandez (Cedars-Sinai): “Hidden lexicase selection parameters: varying population size and test case redundancy with diagnostic metrics”
• 11:00a Charles Ofria (Michigan State University): “Using lineage age to augment search space exploration in lexicase selection”
• 11:30a Closing Discussion
• 12:30p Lunch