# Brendan Cody-Kenny: Genetic programming found faster regular expressions for every target program in a new benchmark suite.

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### 2017-07-01 published #genetic-improvement #performance #regex
Genetic programming found faster regular expressions for every target program in a new benchmark suite.
- 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.
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3071178.3071196
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04119
- https://github.com/codykenb/PonyGE2

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