I used a simple genetic algorithm to optimize the signal to noise ratio of a wave that was represented as a binary string. By flipping the the bits certain ways over several million generations I was able to produce a transform that resulted in a higher signal to noise ratio of that wave. The algorithm could have also been "Simulated Annealing" but was not used in this case. At their core, genetic algorithms are simple, and this was about as simple of a use case that I have seen, so I didn't use a framework for generation creation and selection - only a random seed and the Signal-to-Noise Ratio function at hand.

As part of my undergraduate CompSci degree, we were assigned the problem of finding optimal jvm flags for the Jikes research virtual machine. This was evaluated using the Dicappo benchmark suite which returns a time to the console. I wrote a distributed gentic alogirthm that switched these flags to improve the runtime of the benchmark suite, although it took days to run to compensate for hardware jitter affecting the results. The only problem was I didn't properly learn about the compiler theory (which was the intent of the assignment).

我本可以用现有的默认标志来播种初始种群，但有趣的是，算法发现了一个与O3优化级别非常相似的配置(但实际上在许多测试中更快)。

编辑:我还用Python写了我自己的遗传算法框架，只是使用popen命令来运行各种基准测试，尽管如果不是评估作业，我会看看pyEvolve。

除了一些常见的问题，如《旅行推销员》和Roger Alsing的《蒙娜丽莎》程序的变体，我还编写了一个进化数独求解器(这需要我自己更多的原创想法，而不仅仅是重新实现别人的想法)。解决数独游戏有更可靠的算法，但进化方法效果相当好。

在过去的几天里，在Reddit上看到这篇文章后，我一直在玩一个进化程序来寻找扑克的“冷牌”。目前还不太令人满意，但我想我可以改进。

我有自己的进化算法框架。

在工作中，我遇到了这样一个问题:给定M个任务和N个dsp，如何将任务分配给dsp是最好的?“最佳”定义为“最大负载DSP的负载最小化”。有不同类型的任务，不同的任务类型有不同的性能分支，这取决于它们被分配到哪里，所以我将一组工作到dsp的分配编码为“DNA字符串”，然后使用遗传算法来“培育”我所能“培育”的最佳分配字符串。

它运行得相当好(比我之前的方法好得多，之前的方法是评估每个可能的组合……对于非平凡问题的大小，它将需要数年才能完成!)，唯一的问题是无法判断是否已经达到了最优解。你只能决定当前的“最大努力”是否足够好，或者让它运行更长时间，看看它是否可以做得更好。

没有家庭作业。

1995年，我作为专业程序员的第一份工作是为标准普尔500指数期货编写一个基于遗传算法的自动交易系统。该应用程序是用Visual Basic 3 [!我不知道我当时是怎么做的，因为VB3甚至没有课程。

The application started with a population of randomly-generated fixed-length strings (the "gene" part), each of which corresponded to a specific shape in the minute-by-minute price data of the S&P500 futures, as well as a specific order (buy or sell) and stop-loss and stop-profit amounts. Each string (or "gene") had its profit performance evaluated by a run through 3 years of historical data; whenever the specified "shape" matched the historical data, I assumed the corresponding buy or sell order and evaluated the trade's result. I added the caveat that each gene started with a fixed amount of money and could thus potentially go broke and be removed from the gene pool entirely.

在对种群的每一次评估之后，幸存者被随机杂交(通过混合来自两个亲本的片段)，一个基因被选择为亲本的可能性与它产生的利润成正比。我还添加了点突变的可能性，让事情变得有趣一点。经过几百代这样的基因，我最终得到了一个基因群，它可以把5000美元变成平均约10000美元，而且没有死亡/破碎的可能性(当然是在历史数据上)。

Unfortunately, I never got the chance to use this system live, since my boss lost close to $100,000 in less than 3 months trading the traditional way, and he lost his willingness to continue with the project. In retrospect, I think the system would have made huge profits - not because I was necessarily doing anything right, but because the population of genes that I produced happened to be biased towards buy orders (as opposed to sell orders) by about a 5:1 ratio. And as we know with our 20/20 hindsight, the market went up a bit after 1995.

我曾经使用一个GA来优化内存地址的哈希函数。这些地址的页面大小为4K或8K，因此它们在地址的位模式中显示出一定的可预测性(最低有效位全为0;最初的哈希函数是“粗笨的”——它倾向于每第三个哈希桶聚集一次命中。改进后的算法具有近乎完美的分布。