Domain specific transposition

Domain specific transposition is restricted to the NN-specific domains ? Dw and Dt. Its mechanism, however, is similar to IS transposition. This operator randomly chooses the chromosome, the gene with its respective Dw or Dt, the first position of the transposon, the transposon length, and the target site (also chosen within Dw or Dt). Then it moves the transposon from the place of origin to the target site.

Consider, for instance, the chromosome below with h = 4 (Dw and Dt are shown in different colors):

where “T? represents a function of three arguments and “Q? represents a function of four arguments. Suppose that the sequence ?84668? was chosen as a transposon and that the insertion site was bond 4 in Dw (between positions 20 and 21). Then the following chromosome is obtained:

Note that the transposon is deleted at the place of origin, maintaining the domain length.

Suppose that the arrays below represent the weights and the thresholds of both chromosomes:

As their expression shows (Figure 5.1), they encode very different solutions because the weights are moved around and new combinations of weights and thresholds are tested.

Figure 5.1. Dw-specific transposition. a) The mother neural network. b) The daughter NN created by Dw-specific transposition. Note that the network architecture is the same for both mother and daughter and that W_m = W_d and T_m = T_d. However, mother and daughter are different because different combinations of weights and thresholds are expressed in these individuals.