A genetic algorithm is an optimization heuristic that is inspired by the principles that drive natural evolution: mutation, recombination and selection. In comparison to traditional search methods such as hill-climbing, genetic algorithms have the ability to escape from local minima/maxima.
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Genetic Algorithm for TSP
This is something that I am proud of and would like to have people dissect and tell me where my faults are in. I feel that if I open my best for criticism then maybe it will reveal the deep seeded bad ...
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Backpropagating with Neural Network
I wrote a Java program implementing a neural network with backpropagation. For anyone who isn't familiar with Neural Networks and Backpropagation, here is a good resource. Here is another ...
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Genetic algorithm for solving a puzzle (v. 2)
Thanks to your wonderful comments regarding the first version of my code, I have been able to improve it. This new version is more readable (I guess). The problem is that it seems to me that there is ...
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Genetic algorithm for solving a puzzle
Edit. Version 2.
I am working on a genetic algorithm in order to solve a little "puzzle."
Given a text file with N rows with 4 int each, the idea is to ...
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Where equations are born and mutants are buried
I've read up on genetic programming yesterday so I figured I'd try to implement something myself. I would like the main focus to be on whether or not I've implemented the idea behind it correctly.
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Genetic algorithm for Clever Algorithms project
I wrote a bunch of Ruby code for a book project I've just finished. One criticism is that it is fine code but not very "ruby like". I agree my style was simplified for communication reasons, and ...
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Genetic algorithm for “Hello World”
This programme uses a genetic algorithm to get the string "Hello, World!". It can be summarized as follows:
Create a random initial population.
Let the best ...
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Genetic algorithm for “Hello World”
I've written an Erlang implementation of the genetic algorithm for a "Hello World" program as described here.
This is my first time writing any code in Erlang and also my first time writing code in a ...
