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Comprehensibility and Overfitting Avoidance in Genetic Programming [1 citations — 1 self]

by Lee A. Becker ,  Mukund Seshadri
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Abstract:

This paper presents two methods for increasing comprehensibility in technical trading rules produced by Genetic Programming. For this application domain adding a complexity penalizing factor to the objective fitness function also avoids overfitting the training data. Using pre-computed derived technical indicators, although it biases the search, can express complexity while retaining comprehensibility.

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