Behavioural GP diversity for dynamic environments: an application in hedge fund investment

We present a new mechanism for preserving phenotypic behavioural diversity in a Genetic Programming application for hedge fund portfolio optimization, and provide experimental results on real-world data that indicate the importance of phenotypic behavioural diversity both in achieving higher fitness and in improving the adaptability of the GP population for continuous learning.

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