Conventional Optimization Techniques -- Evolutionary Computation -- Single Objective Optimization -- Evolutionary Algorithms and Constrained Optimization -- Constrained Evolutionary Optimization -- Multi-Objective Optimization -- Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization: A Critical Review --...

While common machine learning algorithms focus on minimizing the mean-square errors of model fit, we show that genetic programming, GP, is well-suited to maximize an economic objective, the Sharpe ratio of the usual spread portfolio in the cross-section of expected stock returns. In contrast to...