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Genetic and evolutionary algorithms

Author: Évelyne LUTTON

Publication date: December 10, 2020, Review date: January 5, 2021

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8. Glossary

Adapting to the environment; fitness

Function optimized by an evolutionary algorithm, used within the selection operator. Also called "evaluation" or "performance" function. It need not be continuous or derivable.

Algorithme évolutionnaire (AE); evolutionary algorithm (EA)

Generic name for heuristics or stochastic optimization algorithms inspired by the theory of Darwinian evolution.

Estimate of distribution algorithm (EDA)

Optimization heuristic operating on a continuous space (real) and evolving a distribution representing the probability of finding the optimum in a given region. Successive populations are generated by sampling the distribution. The CMA-ES (covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy) algorithm belongs to this category.

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