Evolutionary computation has a great potential of exploiting parallelization, a feature often underemphasized when describing evolutionary algorithms (EAs). In this paper, we show that the paradigm of stream processing (SP) can be used to express EAs in a way that allows the immediate exploitation of parallel and distributed computing, not at the expense of the agnosticity of the EAs with respect to the application domain. We introduce the first formal framework for EC based on SP and describe several building blocks tailored to EC. Then, we experimentally validate our framework and show that (a) it can be used to express common EAs, (b) it scales when deployed on real-world stream processing engines (SPEs), and (c) it facilitates the design of EA modifications which would require a larger effort with traditional implementation.

Evolutionary Computation Meets Stream Processing

Medvet, Eric
2024-01-01

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Evolutionary computation has a great potential of exploiting parallelization, a feature often underemphasized when describing evolutionary algorithms (EAs). In this paper, we show that the paradigm of stream processing (SP) can be used to express EAs in a way that allows the immediate exploitation of parallel and distributed computing, not at the expense of the agnosticity of the EAs with respect to the application domain. We introduce the first formal framework for EC based on SP and describe several building blocks tailored to EC. Then, we experimentally validate our framework and show that (a) it can be used to express common EAs, (b) it scales when deployed on real-world stream processing engines (SPEs), and (c) it facilitates the design of EA modifications which would require a larger effort with traditional implementation.
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