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From: Escaping optimization traps: the role of cultural adaptation and cultural exaptation in facilitating open-ended cumulative dynamics

Fig. 3

An example of cultural algorithm. Black circles represent nodes and the arrows connecting nodes represent directed edges. Each edge has a pair of numbers: the first denotes the order of that edge in the set and the second corresponds to the value of that edge. An edge value is the average of its two nodes. This value is rounded to the nearest integer (either \(0\) or \(1\)) to produce a single bit. Edge order is an ordinal value that represents the position of a bit in a solution string.

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