The 2025 ACM GECCO Impact Award: General Program Synthesis Benchmark Suite

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@Article{Helmuth:2026:sigevolution,

• author = "Thomas Helmuth and Lee Spector",
• title = "The 2025 ACM GECCO Impact Award: General Program Synthesis Benchmark Suite",
• journal = "SIGEVOlution",
• year = "2026",
• volume = "19",
• number = "1",
• month = mar,
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, PSB1, symbolic regression, conditional execution, if, looping, for, recursion, fitness sharing, lexicase selection, PushGP",
• publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
• abstract = "... At GECCO 2015, we published the paper General program synthesis benchmark suite, which includes 29 problems taken from introductory programming textbooks \cite{Helmuth:2015:GECCO}. This paper was awarded the ACM SIGEVO 10-years Impact Award at GECCO 2025. Here we briefly reflect on the paper, its impact, and our thoughts about benchmarking program synthesis systems...",
• notes = "Also cites \cite{Sobania:ieeeTEC}

  PSB2 \cite{Helmuth:2021:GECCO}

  'where genetic programming may shine compared to LLM' 'guide the future creation of program synthesis benchmark problems.'",

}

Genetic Programming entries for Thomas Helmuth Lee Spector

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