ec.select

Class GreedyOverselection

java.lang.Object

ec.BreedingSource

ec.SelectionMethod

ec.select.GreedyOverselection

All Implemented Interfaces:

Prototype, Setup, RandomChoiceChooserD, java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable

public class GreedyOverselection
extends SelectionMethod

GreedyOverselection is a SelectionMethod which implements Koza-style fitness-proportionate greedy overselection. Not appropriate for multiobjective fitnesses.

This selection method first divides individuals in a population into two groups: the "good" ("top") group, and the "bad" ("bottom") group. The best top percent of individuals in the population go into the good group. The rest go into the "bad" group. With a certain probability (determined by the gets setting), an individual will be picked out of the "good" group. Once we have determined which group the individual will be selected from, the individual is picked using fitness proportionate selection in that group, that is, the likelihood he is picked is proportionate to his fitness relative to the fitnesses of others in his group.

All this is expensive to set up and bring down, so it's not appropriate for steady-state evolution. If you're not familiar with the relative advantages of selection methods and just want a good one, use TournamentSelection instead.

Note: Fitnesses must be non-negative. 0 is assumed to be the worst fitness.

Typical Number of Individuals Produced Per produce(...) call
Always 1.

Parameters

base.top 0.0 <= double <= 1.0	(the percentage of the population going into the "good" (top) group)
base.gets 0.0 <= double <= 1.0	(the likelihood that an individual will be picked from the "good" group)

Default Base
select.greedy

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
double	gets_n_percent
static java.lang.String	P_GETS
static java.lang.String	P_GREEDY
static java.lang.String	P_TOP
double[]	sortedFitOver
double[]	sortedFitUnder
int[]	sortedPop Sorted population -- since I *have* to use an int-sized individual (short gives me only 16K), I might as well just have pointers to the population itself.
double	top_n_percent

Fields inherited from class ec.SelectionMethod

INDS_PRODUCED

Fields inherited from class ec.BreedingSource

NO_PROBABILITY, P_PROB, probability

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
GreedyOverselection()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Parameter	defaultBase() Returns the default base for this prototype.
void	finishProducing(EvolutionState s, int subpopulation, int thread) A default version of finishProducing, which does nothing.
void	prepareToProduce(EvolutionState s, int subpopulation, int thread) A default version of prepareToProduce which does nothing.
int	produce(int subpopulation, EvolutionState state, int thread) An alternative form of "produce" special to Selection Methods; selects an individual from the given subpopulation and returns its position in that subpopulation.
void	setup(EvolutionState state, Parameter base) Sets up the BreedingPipeline.

Methods inherited from class ec.SelectionMethod

produce, produces, typicalIndsProduced

Methods inherited from class ec.BreedingSource

clone, getProbability, pickRandom, preparePipeline, setProbability, setupProbabilities

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

sortedFitOver

public double[] sortedFitOver

sortedFitUnder

public double[] sortedFitUnder

sortedPop

public int[] sortedPop

Sorted population -- since I *have* to use an int-sized individual (short gives me only 16K), I might as well just have pointers to the population itself. :-(

P_GREEDY

public static final java.lang.String P_GREEDY

See Also:

Constant Field Values

P_TOP

public static final java.lang.String P_TOP

See Also:

Constant Field Values

P_GETS

public static final java.lang.String P_GETS

See Also:

Constant Field Values

top_n_percent

public double top_n_percent

gets_n_percent

public double gets_n_percent

Constructor Detail

GreedyOverselection

public GreedyOverselection()

Method Detail

defaultBase

public Parameter defaultBase()

Description copied from interface: Prototype

Returns the default base for this prototype. This should generally be implemented by building off of the static base() method on the DefaultsForm object for the prototype's package. This should be callable during setup(...).

setup

public void setup(EvolutionState state,
                  Parameter base)

Description copied from class: BreedingSource

Sets up the BreedingPipeline. You can use state.output.error here because the top-level caller promises to call exitIfErrors() after calling setup. Note that probability might get modified again by an external source if it doesn't normalize right.

The most common modification is to normalize it with some other set of probabilities, then set all of them up in increasing summation; this allows the use of the fast static BreedingSource-picking utility method, BreedingSource.pickRandom(...). In order to use this method, for example, if four breeding source probabilities are {0.3, 0.2, 0.1, 0.4}, then they should get normalized and summed by the outside owners as: {0.3, 0.5, 0.6, 1.0}.

Specified by:

setup in interface Prototype

Specified by:

setup in interface Setup

Overrides:

setup in class BreedingSource

See Also:

Prototype.setup(EvolutionState,Parameter)

prepareToProduce

public void prepareToProduce(EvolutionState s,
                             int subpopulation,
                             int thread)

Description copied from class: SelectionMethod

A default version of prepareToProduce which does nothing.

Overrides:

prepareToProduce in class SelectionMethod

produce

public int produce(int subpopulation,
                   EvolutionState state,
                   int thread)

Description copied from class: SelectionMethod

An alternative form of "produce" special to Selection Methods; selects an individual from the given subpopulation and returns its position in that subpopulation.

Specified by:

produce in class SelectionMethod

finishProducing

public void finishProducing(EvolutionState s,
                            int subpopulation,
                            int thread)

Description copied from class: SelectionMethod

A default version of finishProducing, which does nothing.

Overrides:

finishProducing in class SelectionMethod