J. Hart
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I am quite new at Eureqa, so I'm not so familiar with how "candidate
function" fitness is actually evaluated yet, but I'd like to express a
few thoughts on fitness functions and see what people think:
It might be useful to have Eureqa evaluate candidate solutions using a
fitness function which takes "candidate size" into account along with
its error characteristics. It may eliminate some of the more
computationally intensive candidates in favor of the less intensive ones
which may still be acceptably accurate.
Another possibility would be to track "evaluation rates" for individual
candidates. A fitness function which takes this rate into account might
also eliminate the more computationally intensive candidates in favor of
the less intensive, possibly simpler but still acceptably accurate
candidates.
Either of these might serve to considerably speed up a candidate search
by quicker elimination of "unnecessarily complex" candidates.
Regards,
J. Hart