Welcome to Pygenetic’s documentation!¶
Introduction¶
Pygenetic provides users a highly efficient and usable way to explore the problem solving ability of Genetic Algorithms. It seeks to reduce the task of solving a problem using genetic algorithms to just choosing the appropriate operators and values which are provided internally. Further, support is also provided for a user to input his own operators for variation or for solving more specific problems. Students, teachers, researchers, company employees / entrepreneurs can all use our genetic algorithm framework while experimenting with different Machine Learning Algorithms and observing performance.
Features¶
- Presence of both High-Level(SimpleGA) and Low-Level API(GAEngine) which users can use as per need.
- Very generic API - Users can customize different part of the GA be it Evolution, Statistics, Different handlers, Chromosome Representations.
- Supports efficient evolution execution using Apache Spark. This is highly scalable as more workers can be deployed. Parallelization of fitness evaluation, selection, crossovers and mutations are taken care of.
- Supports Adaptive Mutation Rates based on how diverse the population is.
- Supports Hall of Fame(best ever chromosome) Injection so that the best chromosome isn’t lost in later generations due to the selection method used.
- Supports Efficient Iteration Halt
- Supports Visualization of Statistics like max, min, avg, diversity of fitnesses, mutation rates. Users can also define custom statistics
- Supports usage of multiple crossovers and mutations in one GA execution to enhance diversity
- Supports Population Control which users can make use of in various research purposes
- Provides a bunch of Standard Selection, Crossovers, Mutations and Fitness Functions
- Provides continue evolve feature so users can continue from previous evolutions instead of starting all over again.
- Provides ANN Best Topology finder using GA functionality
Contents:
- Introduction
- pygenetic package
- README
- Usage of pygenetic: An overview
- 1. Usage of GAEngine: the Low Level pygenetic GA API
- 2. Usage of SimpleGA: the High Level pygenetic GA API