An information processing apparatus having a first fitness calculation to calculate a fitness using a predetermined function for models in a population; a virtual model generating to select, as parent models, models having higher value of the fitness using the first fitness calculation among the models, and generate a virtual model that outputs by performing calculation of output results of the selected parent models; a second fitness calculation to calculate the fitness of the virtual model using the predetermined function; a replacing operation constituting the population by adding the virtual model and by deleting a model having lower value of the fitness among the models in the population; and a model extracting to extract a model having higher value of the fitness from the population by repeating processing by the virtual model generating, the second fitness calculation, and the model replacing until a predetermined termination condition is reached.