3. Algorithms¶

The algorithms module is intended to contain some specific algorithms in order to execute very common evolutionary algorithms. The method used here are more for convenience than reference as the implementation of every evolutionary algorithm may vary infinitely. Most of the algorithms in this module use operators registered in the toolbox. Generaly, the keyword used are mate() for crossover, mutate() for mutation, select() for selection and evaluate() for evaluation.

You are encouraged to write your own algorithms in order to make them do what you really want them to do.

3.1. Complete Algorithms¶

These are complete boxed algorithms that are somewhat limited to the very basic evolutionary computation concepts. All algorithms accept, in addition to their arguments, an initialized Statistics object to maintain stats of the evolution, an initialized HallOfFame to hold the best individual(s) to appear in the population, and a boolean verbose to specify wether to log what is happening during the evolution or not.

deap.algorithms.eaSimple(population, toolbox, cxpb, mutpb, ngen[, stats, halloffame, verbose])¶

This algorithm reproduce the simplest evolutionary algorithm as presented in chapter 7 of [Back2000].

Parameters:

population – A list of individuals.
toolbox – A Toolbox that contains the evolution operators.
cxpb – The probability of mating two individuals.
mutpb – The probability of mutating an individual.
ngen – The number of generation.
stats – A Statistics object that is updated inplace, optional.
halloffame – A HallOfFame object that will contain the best individuals, optional.
verbose – Whether or not to log the statistics.

Returns:

The final population.

It uses $\lambda = \kappa = \mu$ and goes as follow. It first initializes the population ( $P(0)$ ) by evaluating every individual presenting an invalid fitness. Then, it enters the evolution loop that begins by the selection of the $P(g+1)$ population. Then the crossover operator is applied on a proportion of $P(g+1)$ according to the cxpb probability, the resulting and the untouched individuals are placed in $P'(g+1)$ . Thereafter, a proportion of $P'(g+1)$ , determined by mutpb, is mutated and placed in $P''(g+1)$ , the untouched individuals are transferred $P''(g+1)$ . Finally, those new individuals are evaluated and the evolution loop continues until ngen generations are completed. Briefly, the operators are applied in the following order

evaluate(population)
for i in range(ngen):
    offspring = select(population)
    offspring = mate(offspring)
    offspring = mutate(offspring)
    evaluate(offspring)
    population = offspring

This function expects toolbox.mate(), toolbox.mutate(), toolbox.select() and toolbox.evaluate() aliases to be registered in the toolbox.

[Back2000]

Back, Fogel and Michalewicz, “Evolutionary Computation 1 : Basic Algorithms and Operators”, 2000.

deap.algorithms.eaMuPlusLambda(population, toolbox, mu, lambda_, cxpb, mutpb, ngen[, stats, halloffame, verbose])¶

This is the $(\mu + \lambda)$ evolutionary algorithm.

Parameters:

population – A list of individuals.
toolbox – A Toolbox that contains the evolution operators.
mu – The number of individuals to select for the next generation.
lambda_ – The number of children to produce at each generation.
cxpb – The probability that an offspring is produced by crossover.
mutpb – The probability that an offspring is produced by mutation.
ngen – The number of generation.
stats – A Statistics object that is updated inplace, optional.
halloffame – A HallOfFame object that will contain the best individuals, optional.
verbose – Whether or not to log the statistics.

Returns:

The final population.

First, the individuals having an invalid fitness are evaluated. Then, the evolutionary loop begins by producing lambda_ offspring from the population, the offspring are generated by a crossover, a mutation or a reproduction proportionally to the probabilities cxpb, mutpb and 1 - (cxpb + mutpb). The offspring are then evaluated and the next generation population is selected from both the offspring and the population. Briefly, the operators are applied as following

evaluate(population)
for i in range(ngen):
    offspring = varOr(population, toolbox, lambda_, cxpb, mutpb)
    evaluate(offspring)
    population = select(population + offspring, mu)

This function expects toolbox.mate(), toolbox.mutate(), toolbox.select() and toolbox.evaluate() aliases to be registered in the toolbox. This algorithm uses the varOr() variation.

deap.algorithms.eaMuCommaLambda(population, toolbox, mu, lambda_, cxpb, mutpb, ngen[, stats, halloffame, verbose])¶

This is the $(\mu~,~\lambda)$ evolutionary algorithm.

Parameters:

population – A list of individuals.
toolbox – A Toolbox that contains the evolution operators.
mu – The number of individuals to select for the next generation.
lambda_ – The number of children to produce at each generation.
cxpb – The probability that an offspring is produced by crossover.
mutpb – The probability that an offspring is produced by mutation.
ngen – The number of generation.
stats – A Statistics object that is updated inplace, optional.
halloffame – A HallOfFame object that will contain the best individuals, optional.
verbose – Whether or not to log the statistics.

Returns:

The final population.

First, the individuals having an invalid fitness are evaluated. Then, the evolutionary loop begins by producing lambda_ offspring from the population, the offspring are generated by a crossover, a mutation or a reproduction proportionally to the probabilities cxpb, mutpb and 1 - (cxpb + mutpb). The offspring are then evaluated and the next generation population is selected only from the offspring. Briefly, the operators are applied as following

evaluate(population)
for i in range(ngen):
    offspring = varOr(population, toolbox, lambda_, cxpb, mutpb)
    evaluate(offspring)
    population = select(offspring, mu)

This function expects toolbox.mate(), toolbox.mutate(), toolbox.select() and toolbox.evaluate() aliases to be registered in the toolbox. This algorithm uses the varOr() variation.

deap.algorithms.eaGenerateUpdate(toolbox, ngen[, stats, halloffame, verbose])¶

This is algorithm implements the ask-tell model proposed in [Colette2010], where ask is called generate and tell is called update.

Parameters:	toolbox – A `Toolbox` that contains the evolution operators. ngen – The number of generation. stats – A `Statistics` object that is updated inplace, optional. halloffame – A `HallOfFame` object that will contain the best individuals, optional. verbose – Whether or not to log the statistics.
Returns:	The final population.

The toolbox should contain a reference to the generate and the update method of the chosen strategy.

[Colette2010]

Collette, Y., N. Hansen, G. Pujol, D. Salazar Aponte and R. Le Riche (2010). On Object-Oriented Programming of Optimizers - Examples in Scilab. In P. Breitkopf and R. F. Coelho, eds.: Multidisciplinary Design Optimization in Computational Mechanics, Wiley, pp. 527-565;

3.2. Variations¶

Variations are smaller parts of the algorithms that can be used separately to build more complex algorithms.

deap.algorithms.varAnd(population, toolbox, cxpb, mutpb)¶

Part of an evolutionary algorithm applying only the variation part (crossover and mutation). The modified individuals have their fitness invalidated. The individuals are cloned so returned population is independent of the input population.

Parameters:	population – A list of individuals to variate. toolbox – A `Toolbox` that contains the evolution operators. cxpb – The probability of mating two individuals. mutpb – The probability of mutating an individual.
Returns:	A list of varied individuals that are independent of their parents.

The variator goes as follow. First, the parental population $P_\mathrm{p}$ is duplicated using the toolbox.clone() method and the result is put into the offspring population $P_\mathrm{o}$ . A first loop over $P_\mathrm{o}$ is executed to mate consecutive individuals. According to the crossover probability cxpb, the individuals $\mathbf{x}_i$ and $\mathbf{x}_{i+1}$ are mated using the toolbox.mate() method. The resulting children $\mathbf{y}_i$ and $\mathbf{y}_{i+1}$ replace their respective parents in $P_\mathrm{o}$ . A second loop over the resulting $P_\mathrm{o}$ is executed to mutate every individual with a probability mutpb. When an individual is mutated it replaces its not mutated version in $P_\mathrm{o}$ . The resulting $P_\mathrm{o}$ is returned.

This variation is named And beceause of its propention to apply both crossover and mutation on the individuals. Note that both operators are not applied systematicaly, the resulting individuals can be generated from crossover only, mutation only, crossover and mutation, and reproduction according to the given probabilities. Both probabilities should be in $[0, 1]$ .

deap.algorithms.varOr(population, toolbox, lambda_, cxpb, mutpb)¶

Part of an evolutionary algorithm applying only the variation part (crossover, mutation or reproduction). The modified individuals have their fitness invalidated. The individuals are cloned so returned population is independent of the input population.

Parameters:	population – A list of individuals to variate. toolbox – A `Toolbox` that contains the evolution operators. lambda_ – The number of children to produce cxpb – The probability of mating two individuals. mutpb – The probability of mutating an individual.
Returns:	A list of varied individuals that are independent of their parents.

The variator goes as follow. On each of the lambda_ iteration, it selects one of the three operations; crossover, mutation or reproduction. In the case of a crossover, two individuals are selected at random from the parental population $P_\mathrm{p}$ , those individuals are cloned using the toolbox.clone() method and then mated using the toolbox.mate() method. Only the first child is appended to the offspring population $P_\mathrm{o}$ , the second child is discarded. In the case of a mutation, one individual is selected at random from $P_\mathrm{p}$ , it is cloned and then mutated using using the toolbox.mutate() method. The resulting mutant is appended to $P_\mathrm{o}$ . In the case of a reproduction, one individual is selected at random from $P_\mathrm{p}$ , cloned and appended to $P_\mathrm{o}$ .

This variation is named Or beceause an offspring will never result from both operations crossover and mutation. The sum of both probabilities shall be in $[0, 1]$ , the reproduction probability is 1 - cxpb - mutpb.

4. Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy¶

3. Algorithms¶

3.1. Complete Algorithms¶

3.2. Variations¶

4. Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy¶

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