Research Article

Epistasis-Based Basis Estimation Method for Simplifying the Problem Space of an Evolutionary Search in Binary Representation

Table 5

Epistasis of the original and modified basis sampling in the variant-onemax problem.

ā€‰Sampling size Epistasis
Before After Decrease rate

20 square 4.46 3.23 27.6
cubic 4.35 3.83 12.0

30 square 4.57 3.20 30.0
cubic 5.00 3.72 25.6

50 square 9.27 7.53 18.8
cubic 9.69 8.93 7.8