{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/33/genetic-programming-found-faster-regular-expressions-for", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny"}, "post": {"id": 33, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/33/genetic-programming-found-faster-regular-expressions-for", "kind": "published", "summary": "Genetic programming found faster regular expressions for every target program in a new benchmark suite.", "details": ["Cody-Kenny, Fenton, Ronayne, Considine, McGuire and O'Neill. GECCO 2017, ACM.", "Starting from a known good expression, population diversity was critical to escape its local optimum.", "Work done in collaboration with Fidelity Investments."], "links": ["https://doi.org/10.1145/3071178.3071196", "https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04119", "https://github.com/codykenb/PonyGE2"], "tags": ["genetic-improvement", "performance", "regex"], "happened_on": "2017-07-01", "created": "2026-10-01T20:15:22.557147Z", "edited": null}}