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- From: freytag@seas.gwu.edu (Richard Freytag)
- Subject: Re: Simple problems to solve genetically
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.213859.24981@seas.gwu.edu>
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- Sender: Richard Freytag
- Organization: George Washington University
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:38:59 GMT
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- Tom Fawcett writes....
-
- I'm surprised by this discussion of how to represent blackjack so a
- genetic algorithm could solve it. If you have to put that much effort into
- getting the representation just right, it seems like you -- the humans -- have
- already done the interesting learning.
-
- Richard Freytag adds....
-
- I agree completely. It seems that much of the effort involved in GAs is
- in how to map the problem representation onto the GA bit string so that
- the search under the selected recombination operator(s) has meaning
- beyond a random search. The generally, emphasize generally, complete
- networks used in neural nets avoid this problem with the representation
- topology at the cost of vastly expanded search space from any given state
- vector. I regularly see efforts that do not take significant advantage
- of the linkage pattern imposed by the recombination operator with the
- string bit pattern [Goldberg, GAs & Simulated Annealing].
- The result is nearly random search that suceeds
- because there are many satisficing state vectors in the problem space and
- no clear idea of what the optimum is. Best examples can be seen in many
- efforts that simulate artificial life. These papers need to show that
- consideration has been given to what the linked alleles would be and map
- them as close as possible onto the bit string. I saw an article in
- AI Expert 6 monthes ago that did just that with the TSP. Results were
- presented at GA Conference IV. Reference escapes me at the moment but
- email me and I will send it too you.
-
- -Richard Freytag
-