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 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。

In 2007-9 I developed some software for reading datamatrix patterns. Often these patterns were difficult to read, being indented into scratched surfaces with all kinds of reflectance properties, fuzzy chemically etched markings and so on. I used a GA to fine tune various parameters of the vision algorithms to give the best results on a database of 300 images having known properties. Parameters were things like downsampling resolution, RANSAC parameters, amount of erosion and dilation, low pass filtering radius, and a few others. Running the optimisation over several days this produced results which were about 20% better than naive values on a test set of images unseen during the optimisation phase.

这个系统完全是从零开始编写的，我没有使用任何其他库。我并不反对使用这些东西，只要它们能提供可靠的结果，但是您必须注意许可兼容性和代码可移植性问题。

我不知道家庭作业算不算…

在我学习期间，我们推出了自己的程序来解决旅行推销员问题。

我们的想法是对几个标准进行比较(映射问题的难度，性能等)，我们还使用了其他技术，如模拟退火。

它运行得很好，但我们花了一段时间来理解如何正确地进行“复制”阶段:将手头的问题建模成适合遗传编程的东西，这对我来说是最难的部分……

这是一门有趣的课程，因为我们也涉猎了神经网络之类的知识。

我想知道是否有人在“生产”代码中使用这种编程。

我做了一个完整的GA框架，命名为“GALAB”，解决了很多问题:

定位GSM ANTs (BTS)以减少重叠和空白位置。 资源约束项目调度。 进化图景的创造。(Evopic) 旅行推销员问题。 n -皇后和n -颜色问题。 骑士之旅和背包问题。 魔方和数独谜题。 字符串压缩，基于超字符串问题。 二维包装问题。 微型人工生命APP。 鲁比克难题。