将进化计算重新定义为自然生成AI,激发突破性创意。
Evolutionary Computation as Natural Generative AI
- 用进化搜索替代梯度学习,实现跨领域特征重组。
- 仅数代即可生成分布外的新颖结构,突破数据局限。
- 适合探索式设计、科学发现与开放生成场景。
生成式人工智能(GenAI)在多个领域取得显著进展,但其能力受限于有限训练集的统计模型及基于局部梯度的学习机制,常导致产物更趋模仿而非真正创造。相比之下,进化计算(EC)通过搜索驱动路径,拓展了未探索解空间中的多样性与创造力。本文建立EC与GenAI的根本联系,将EC重定义为自然生成人工智能(NatGenAI)——一种受自然选择支配的探索性生成范式。经典EC的亲本中心算子类比传统GenAI;而破坏性算子可在数代内引发结构化进化跃迁,生成分布外产物。此外,进化多任务方法实现了破坏性EC与温和选择机制的融合,允许新解存活,持续推动创新。重思EC为NatGenAI,凸显结构化破坏与选择压力缓和是创造力的核心驱动力。该视角将生成范式拓展至传统边界之外,使EC在生成式人工智能时代对探索式设计、科学发现与开放生成具有关键价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Generative AI (GenAI) has achieved remarkable success across a range of domains, but its capabilities remain constrained to statistical models of finite training sets and learning based on local gradient signals. This often results in artifacts that are more derivative than genuinely generative. In contrast, Evolutionary Computation (EC) offers a search-driven pathway to greater diversity and creativity, expanding generative capabilities by exploring uncharted solution spaces beyond the limits of available data. This work establishes a fundamental connection between EC and GenAI, redefining EC as Natural Generative AI (NatGenAI) -- a generative paradigm governed by exploratory search under natural selection. We demonstrate that classical EC with parent-centric operators mirrors conventional GenAI, while disruptive operators enable structured evolutionary leaps, often within just a few generations, to generate out-of-distribution artifacts. Moreover, the methods of evolutionary multitasking provide an unparalleled means of integrating disruptive EC (with cross-domain recombination of evolved features) and moderated selection mechanisms (allowing novel solutions to survive), thereby fostering sustained innovation. By reframing EC as NatGenAI, we emphasize structured disruption and selection pressure moderation as essential drivers of creativity. This perspective extends the generative paradigm beyond conventional boundaries and positions EC as crucial to advancing exploratory design, innovation, scientific discovery, and open-ended generation in the GenAI era.
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