genetic-algorithm

Improving Q-Learning

Hello I am currently using Q-Learning to try to teach a bot how to move in a room filled with walls/obstacles. It must start in any place in the room and get to the goal state(this might be, to the tile that has a door, for example). Currently when it wants to move to another tile, it will go to that tile, but I was thinking that in the...

How could I apply a genetic algorithm to a simple game that follows rollercoaster tracks?

I have free-rein over what I do on a final assignment for school, with respect to modifying a simple direct-x game that currently just has the camera follow some rollercoaster rails. I've developed an interest in genetic algorithms and would like to take this opportunity to apply one and learn something about them. However, I can't thi...

Artificial Inteligence library in python

I was wondering if there are any python AI libraries similar to aima-python but for a more recent version of python... and how they are in comparison to aima-python. I was particularly interested in search algorithms such as hill-climbing, simulated annealing, tabu search and genetic algorithms. edit: made the question more clear. ...

How to structure a Genetic Algorithm class hierarchy?

I'm doing some work with Genetic Algorithms and want to write my own GA classes. Since a GA can have different ways of doing selection, mutation, cross-over, generating an initial population, calculating fitness, and terminating the algorithm, I need a way to plug in different combinations of these. My initial approach was to have an abs...

Tracking fitness in a genetic algorithm

I'm still hacking on my old ruby for the undead post (I know, I know, stop trying to bring the post back from the dead Chuck). But the code has gotten a little out of hand and now I'm working on a genetic algorithm to create the ultimate battle of living and dead with the fitness being how long the battle lasts. So, I've got the basics...

Genetics algorithms theoretical question

Hi All! I'm currently reading "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (Russell+Norvig) and "Machine Learning" (Mitchell) - and trying to learn basics of AINN. In order to understand few basic things I have two 'greenhorn' questions: Q1: In a genetic algorithm given the two parents A and B with the chromosomes 001110 and 101101, r...

Genetic Algorithms applied to Curve Fitting

Let's imagine I have an unknown function that I want to approximate via Genetic Algorithms. For this case, I'll assume it is y = 2x. I'd have a DNA composed of 5 elements, one y for each x, from x = 0 to x = 4, in which, after a lot of trials and computation and I'd arrive near something of the form: best_adn = [ 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 ] Keep ...

whats the genetic algorithm code for shortest path between nodes?

whats the genetic algorithm code for shortest path between nodes? ...

What is a good genetic algorithm (GA) or particle swarm optimisation (PSO) framework to use for .NET?

I would like to know what is a good, stable, framework that you guys suggest for implementing evolutionary optimisation techniques like PSO or GA? I have written my own ones and I like them, I would be interested in comparing or adding to existing stable ones (or just using them if they are solid and extensible). ...

Using c#,c/c++ or java to improve BBN with GA

I have a little problem in my little project , I wish that someone here could help me! I am planning to use a bayesian network as a decision factor in my game AI and I want to improve the decision making every step of the way , anyone knows how to do that ? Any tutorials / existing implementations will be very good,I hope some of you co...

Creating a "crossover" function for a genetic algorithm to improve network paths

Hi, I'm trying to develop a genetic algorithm that will find the most efficient way to connect a given number of nodes at specified locations. All the nodes on the network must be able to connect to the server node and there must be no cycles within the network. It's basically a tree. I have a function that can measure the "fitness"...

Implementing crossover in genetic programming

Hi, I'm writing a genetic programming (GP) system (in C but that's a minor detail). I've read a lot of the literature (Koza, Poli, Langdon, Banzhaf, Brameier, et al) but there are some implementation details I've never seen explained. For example: I'm using a steady state population rather than a generational approach, primarily to use...

How to optimize neural network by using genetic algorithm?

I'm quite new with this topic so any help would be great. What i need is to optimize a neural network in MATLAB by using GA. My network has [2x98] input and [1x98] target, i've tried consulting matlab help but im still kind of clueless about what to do :( so, any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. edit: i guess i didn't say w...

GA Framework for Virtual Machines

Does anyone know of any .NET genetic algorithm frameworks for evolving instructions sets in virtual machines to solve abstract problems? I would be particularly interested in a framework which allows virtual machines to self propagate within a pool and evolve against a fitness function determined by a data set with "good" outputs given e...

Genetic algorithms

I'm trying to implement a genetic algorithm that will calculate the minimum of the Rastrigin functon and I'm having some issues. I need to represent the chromosome as a binary string and as the Rastrigin's function takes a list of numbers as a parameter, how can decode the chromosome to a list of numbers? Also the Rastrigin's wants the e...

Suggested GA operators for a TSP problem?

I'm building a genetic algorithm to tackle the traveling salesman problem. Unfortunately, I hit peaks that can sustain for over a thousand generations before mutating out of them and getting better results. What crossover and mutation operators generally do well in this case? ...

Do you have genetic algorithm in production?

Is it good idea to use genetic algorithm in production? If you are using it: In what case? What pros for selecting subj? Can you easily add changes to algorithm? ...

Special scheduling Algorithm (pattern expansion)

Question Do you think genetic algorithms worth trying out for the problem below, or will I hit local-minima issues? I think maybe aspects of the problem is great for a generator / fitness-function style setup. (If you've botched a similar project I would love hear from you, and not do something similar) Thank you for any tips on how to...

how to work with strings and integers as bit strings in python?

Hello! I'm developing a Genetic Algorithm in python were chromosomes are composed of strings and integers. To apply the genetic operations, I want to convert these groups of integers and strings into bit strings. For example, if one chromosome is: ["Hello", 4, "anotherString"] I'd like it to become something like: 010010010010100101...

How do you avoid an invalid search space in a genetic algorithm?

I am developing a GA for a school project and I've noticed that upon evaluating my functions for fitness, an individual is equivalent to its inverse. For example, the set (1, 1, -1, 1) is equivalent to (-1, -1, 1, -1). To shrink my search space and reach a solution more efficiently, how can I avoid my crossovers from searching in thi...