进化计算研究生班: 开发了TopCoder马拉松比赛49:megpartty的解决方案。我的小组正在测试不同的域表示法，以及不同的表示法如何影响ga找到正确答案的能力。我们为这个问题编写了自己的代码。

Neuroevolution and Generative and Developmental Systems, Graduate Class: Developed an Othello game board evaluator that was used in the min-max tree of a computer player. The player was set to evaluate one-deep into the game, and trained to play against a greedy computer player that considered corners of vital importance. The training player saw either 3 or 4 deep (I'll need to look at my config files to answer, and they're on a different computer). The goal of the experiment was to compare Novelty Search to traditional, fitness-based search in the Game Board Evaluation domain. Results were relatively inconclusive, unfortunately. While both the novelty search and fitness-based search methods came to a solution (showing that Novelty Search can be used in the Othello domain), it was possible to have a solution to this domain with no hidden nodes. Apparently I didn't create a sufficiently competent trainer if a linear solution was available (and it was possible to have a solution right out of the gates). I believe my implementation of Fitness-based search produced solutions more quickly than my implementation of Novelty search, this time. (this isn't always the case). Either way, I used ANJI, "Another NEAT Java Implementation" for the neural network code, with various modifications. The Othello game I wrote myself.

在我的婚宴上，我使用GA来优化座位分配。80位客人超过10张桌子。评估功能是基于让人们和他们的约会对象在一起，把有共同点的人放在一起，把观点完全相反的人放在不同的桌子上。

我运行了几次。每次我都有九张好桌子，还有一张都是怪球。最后，我妻子安排了座位。

我的旅行推销员优化器使用了一种新的染色体到行程的映射，这使得繁殖和变异染色体变得很简单，没有产生无效行程的风险。

更新:因为一些人问了…

以任意但一致的顺序(如按字母顺序排列)的客人(或城市)数组开始。称之为参考溶液。把客人的座位号看作是他/她的座位号。

我们没有尝试直接在染色体中编码这种顺序，而是编码将参考溶液转化为新溶液的指令。具体来说，我们将染色体视为数组中要交换的索引列表。为了解码染色体，我们从参考溶液开始，并应用由染色体指示的所有交换。交换数组中的两个条目总是会得到一个有效的解决方案:每个来宾(或城市)仍然只出现一次。

因此，染色体可以随机生成，突变，并与其他染色体交叉，总是会产生有效的解决方案。

足球引爆。我建立了一个GA系统来预测每周澳式足球比赛的结果。

A few years ago I got bored of the standard work football pool, everybody was just going online and taking the picks from some pundit in the press. So, I figured it couldn't be too hard to beat a bunch of broadcast journalism majors, right? My first thought was to take the results from Massey Ratings and then reveal at the end of the season my strategy after winning fame and glory. However, for reasons I've never discovered Massey does not track AFL. The cynic in me believes it is because the outcome of each AFL game has basically become random chance, but my complaints of recent rule changes belong in a different forum.

该系统基本上考虑了进攻强度、防守强度、主场优势、每周的改进(或缺乏)以及这些方面的变化速度。这为每支球队在整个赛季中建立了一组多项式方程。可以计算给定日期的每场比赛的获胜者和分数。我们的目标是找到最接近过去所有游戏结果的系数集，并使用该集合来预测接下来几周的游戏。

在实践中，该系统将找到能够准确预测过去90%以上游戏结果的解决方案。然后，它会成功地为即将到来的一周(即不在训练集中的那一周)挑选大约60-80%的比赛。

结果是:略高于中游水平。没有巨额奖金也没有能打败维加斯的系统。不过很有趣。

我从零开始构建一切，没有使用任何框架。

Several years ago I used ga's to optimize asr (automatic speech recognition) grammars for better recognition rates. I started with fairly simple lists of choices (where the ga was testing combinations of possible terms for each slot) and worked my way up to more open and complex grammars. Fitness was determined by measuring separation between terms/sequences under a kind of phonetic distance function. I also experimented with making weakly equivalent variations on a grammar to find one that compiled to a more compact representation (in the end I went with a direct algorithm, and it drastically increased the size of the "language" that we could use in applications).

最近，我将它们用作默认假设，以此来测试由各种算法生成的解决方案的质量。这主要涉及分类和不同类型的拟合问题(即创建一个“规则”，解释审查员对数据集所做的一组选择)。

我为我的公司在1992年为货运业开发的3D激光表面轮廓系统开发了一个家庭酿造GA。 该系统依赖于三维三角测量，并使用了定制的激光线扫描仪，512x512相机(具有定制的捕获hw)。相机和激光之间的距离永远不会是精确的，相机的焦点也不会在你期望的256,256的位置找到!

尝试使用标准几何和模拟退火式方程求解来计算校准参数是一场噩梦。

遗传算法在一个晚上就完成了，我创建了一个校准立方体来测试它。我知道立方体的精度很高，因此我的想法是，我的遗传算法可以为每个扫描单元进化一组自定义三角测量参数，以克服生产变化。

这招很管用。退一步说，我简直目瞪口呆!在大约10代的时间里，我的“虚拟”立方体(由原始扫描生成并根据校准参数重新创建)实际上看起来像一个立方体!经过大约50代之后，我得到了我需要的校准。

As part of my thesis I wrote a generic java framework for the multi-objective optimisation algorithm mPOEMS (Multiobjective prototype optimization with evolved improvement steps), which is a GA using evolutionary concepts. It is generic in a way that all problem-independent parts have been separated from the problem-dependent parts, and an interface is povided to use the framework with only adding the problem-dependent parts. Thus one who wants to use the algorithm does not have to begin from zero, and it facilitates work a lot.

你可以在这里找到代码。

你可以用这个算法找到的解决方案已经在科学工作中与最先进的算法SPEA-2和NSGA进行了比较，并且已经证明 算法的性能相当，甚至更好，这取决于您用来衡量性能的指标，特别是取决于您正在关注的优化问题。

你可以在这里找到它。

同样，作为我的论文和工作证明的一部分，我将这个框架应用于项目组合管理中的项目选择问题。它是关于选择对公司增加最大价值的项目，支持公司的战略或支持任何其他任意目标。例如，从特定类别中选择一定数量的项目，或最大化项目协同作用，……

我的论文将该框架应用于项目选择问题: http://www.ub.tuwien.ac.at/dipl/2008/AC05038968.pdf

之后，我在一家财富500强公司的投资组合管理部门工作，在那里他们使用了一种商业软件，该软件还将GA应用于项目选择问题/投资组合优化。

更多资源:

框架文档: http://thomaskremmel.com/mpoems/mpoems_in_java_documentation.pdf

mPOEMS演示论文: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1792634.1792653

实际上，只要有一点热情，每个人都可以很容易地将通用框架的代码适应任意的多目标优化问题。