Offspring
Offspring are new candidate individuals or solutions produced from one or more parent candidates through reproduction or variation.
Optimization Algorithms: AI techniques for design, planning, and control problems
Offspring are candidate individuals generated by applying evolutionary variation operators to parent individuals.
- How it is used
- Generates candidate solutions for fitness evaluation and possible inclusion in later genetic-algorithm generations.
- How deep it goes
- Works through binary crossover and mutation, then implements a generation loop; does not develop formal analysis of offspring quality.
- Examples
- Uses binary ticket-price offspring with calculated profits, a duplicate candidate, and a mutated candidate.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch in Python or apply it via pymoo to generate and evaluate ticket-price candidates.
Grokking AI Algorithms, Second Edition
Offspring are new candidate solutions generated from existing individuals by an evolutionary algorithm's reproduction operation.
- How it is used
- Supplies new candidate solutions for successive generations of a genetic algorithm.
- How deep it goes
- Explains creation through crossover and mutation, then discusses offspring count, validity, and population replacement without detailing code.
- Examples
- Illustrates chromosome mixing with two-point crossover and population replacement with 80 retained individuals plus 20 offspring.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate/understand how offspring creation and replacement choices affect diversity, solution validity, and retention of good candidates.
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Related concepts
- crossoverproduced by · Crossover is an evolutionary recombination technique that combines material from parent candidate solutions to produce one or more offspring.
- reproductionproduced by · Reproduction is an evolutionary algorithm operation that generates offspring or copies from selected parent solutions through inheritance and variation.
- population sizeconfigured by · Population size is the number of individuals, entities, observations, or candidate solutions comprising a defined population.
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