这是一段时间以前的事了，但我滚动了一个GA来进化实际上是图像处理内核的东西，以从哈勃太空望远镜(HST)图像中去除宇宙射线痕迹。标准的方法是用哈勃望远镜进行多次曝光，只保留所有图像中相同的东西。由于HST时间是如此宝贵，我是一个天文学爱好者，最近参加了进化计算大会，我考虑使用GA来清理单次曝光。

这些个体以树的形式存在，以3x3像素的区域作为输入，执行一些计算，并决定是否以及如何修改中心像素。通过将输出图像与用传统方法(即叠加曝光)清理的图像进行比较来判断适合度。

这实际上是可行的，但还不足以让我们放弃原来的方法。如果我的论文没有时间限制，我可能已经扩展了算法可用的遗传部分。我很确定我可以大大提高它。

使用的库:如果我没记错的话，用于天文图像数据处理和I/O的IRAF和cfitsio。

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.

在我的本科论文中，我使用遗传编程来开发用于空中搜索和救援的合作搜索策略。我使用一个名为NetLogo(基于StarLogo)的开源代理建模平台作为世界模型。NetLogo是用java写的，因此提供了java api -所以GP框架需要基于java -我使用的一个叫做JGAP，还有另一个开源GP框架在java中，我知道叫做ECJ。

模拟运行起来非常慢(我认为这是由于NetLogo模型)，所以我的功能/终端集非常有限，限制了搜索空间。尽管如此，我还是想出了一些很好的解决办法。如果你有这种冲动，你可以在我的论文http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~ekjo014/z3157867_Thesis.pdf的第三章读到

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。

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.

我是一个研究使用进化计算(EC)来自动修复现有程序中的错误的团队的成员。我们已经在现实世界的软件项目中成功地修复了一些真实的错误(参见本项目的主页)。

这种EC修复技术有两种应用。

The first (code and reproduction information available through the project page) evolves the abstract syntax trees parsed from existing C programs and is implemented in Ocaml using our own custom EC engine. The second (code and reproduction information available through the project page), my personal contribution to the project, evolves the x86 assembly or Java byte code compiled from programs written in a number of programming languages. This application is implemented in Clojure and also uses its own custom built EC engine.

进化计算的一个优点是技术的简单性，使得编写自己的自定义实现不太困难。有关遗传规划的一个很好的免费的介绍性文本，请参阅遗传规划的现场指南。