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TobusFire OP t1_janzia9 wrote

Reply to comment by extracensorypower in [D] Are Genetic Algorithms Dead? by TobusFire

Agreed. That being said, I think the prior is that you still need to have enough understanding of the state space to be able to design good mutations, cross-over, and fitness. This can easily add a lot of overhead. In contrast, I think that other cool methods like swarm optimization and ant colony optimization are also promising and in some ways simpler.

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extracensorypower t1_jao08hm wrote

Hmm. Hadn't thought of that, but that's probably true. I'm less familiar with the mechanics of these but I bet they'll be similarly good for low or no-information scenarios or P-NP problems.

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