| Download | - View accepted manuscript: Myths and Legends of the Baldwin Effect (PDF, 516 KiB)
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| Author | Search for: Turney, Peter1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Information Technology
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | Proceedings of the Workshop on Evolutionary Computing and Machine Learning,at the 13th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-96), July 3-6, 1996., Bari, Italy |
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| Abstract | This position paper argues that the Baldwin effect is widely misunderstood by the evolutionary computation community. The misunderstandings appear to fall into two general categories. Firstly, it is commonly believed that the Baldwin effect is concerned with the synergy that results when there is an evolving population of learning individuals.This is only half of the story. The full story is more complicated and more interesting. The Baldwin effect is concerned with the costs and benefits of lifetime learning by individuals in an evolving population. Several researchers have focussed exclusively on the benefits, but there is much to be gained from attention to the costs. This paper explains the two sides of the story and enumerates ten of the costs and benefits of lifetime learning by individuals in an evolving population. Secondly, there is a cluster of misunderstandings about the relationship between the Baldwin effect and Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characteristics. The Baldwin effect is not Lamarckian. A Lamarckian algorithm is not better for most evolutionary computing problems than a Baldwinian algorithm. Finally, Lamarckian inheritance is not a better model of memetic (cultural) evolution than the Baldwin effect. |
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| Publication date | 1996 |
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| Language | English |
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| NRC number | NRCC 39220 |
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| NPARC number | 8914171 |
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| Record identifier | 33bbc88f-5446-466c-90dc-6128a1299d27 |
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| Record created | 2009-04-22 |
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| Record modified | 2020-03-20 |
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