Systems and methods for providing data-driven evolution of arbitrary data structures

An evolution module in a first secure processing environment for generating populations of candidate genomes for evaluation by an independent candidate evaluation module located in a second secure processing environment in a specific domain, comprising:

• a parser module for
• receiving a configuration specification from a research module,
• parsing the configuration specification into a tree structure of specific coded data structures, and
• generating a policy assembly using the parsed tree structure of specific coded data structures to produce a representation tree of reproduction policy structures, wherein each instance of the reproduction policy structures represents one of a single leaf node or branch node in the representation tree;
• and further wherein the configuration specification is indicative of a known candidate genome representation that is recognizable to the independent candidate evaluation module;
• and
• a population initialization module for initiating the creation of an internal representation of a candidate genome in accordance with the representation tree of reproduction policy structures, wherein the reproduction policy structures are data-type specific;
• wherein the evolution module translates the internal representation of the candidate genome to the known representation of the candidate genome and provides the known representation of the candidate genome to the candidate evaluation module for fitness evaluation in the specific domain;
• and
• further wherein, evolution of the candidate genomes and evaluation of the candidate genomes in the specific domain are performed securely from each other.