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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Engineering › Optimization and Packing Problems

   Automatic heuristic generation with genetic programming

   Burke, Hyde, Kendall and Woodward · Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) · 2007

   The paper shows genetic programming can automatically generate online bin packing heuristics, and that the choice of training instances strongly shapes how general or specialised they are.

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   1. UncheckedA genetic programming system can automatically generate online bin packing heuristics that are human-competitive across problem sets, or excel on a particular sub-set.“The contribution of this paper is to show that a Genetic Programming system can automate the process of heuristic generation and produce heuristics that are human-competitive over a range of sets of problems, or which excel on a particular sub-set.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper states that which training instances are chosen matters greatly when heuristics are generated automatically, because performance trades off against generality.“We also show that the choice of training instances is vital in the area of automatic heuristic generation, due to the trade-off between the performance and generality of the heuristics generated and their applicability to new problems.”

2. Engineering › Robotic Process Automation Applications

   Artificial Intelligence Co-Piloted Auditing

   Gu, Schreyer, Moffitt and Vasarhelyi · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023

   The paper proposes auditors working alongside foundation models such as GPT-4, and illustrates this with prompt-based adaptation of ChatGPT on three audit tasks.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors say they show co-piloted auditing is promising by adapting GPT-4 through ChatGPT for three audit tasks: ratio analysis, text mining and journal entry testing.“We demonstrate the potential of co-piloted auditing, by fine-tuning GPT-4 using OpenAI's ChatGPT interface towards three different audit tasks namely financial ratio analysis, text mining, and journal entry testing.”