/// <summary>
/// Create and return a NeatEvolutionAlgorithm object ready for running the NEAT algorithm/search. Various sub-parts
/// of the algorithm are also constructed and connected up.
/// This overload accepts a pre-built genome population and their associated/parent genome factory.
/// </summary>
public NeatEvolutionAlgorithm <NeatGenome> CreateEvolutionAlgorithm(IGenomeFactory <NeatGenome> genomeFactory, List <NeatGenome> genomeList)
{
// Create distance metric. Mismatched genes have a fixed distance of 10; for matched genes the distance is their weigth difference.
IDistanceMetric distanceMetric = new ManhattanDistanceMetric(1.0, 0.0, 10.0);
ISpeciationStrategy <NeatGenome> speciationStrategy = new ParallelKMeansClusteringStrategy <NeatGenome>(distanceMetric, _parallelOptions);
// Create complexity regulation strategy.
IComplexityRegulationStrategy complexityRegulationStrategy = ExperimentUtils.CreateComplexityRegulationStrategy(_complexityRegulationStr, _complexityThreshold);
// Create the evolution algorithm.
NeatEvolutionAlgorithm <NeatGenome> ea = new NeatEvolutionAlgorithm <NeatGenome>(_eaParams, speciationStrategy, complexityRegulationStrategy);
// Create IBlackBox evaluator.
_evaluator = CreateEvaluator();
// Create genome decoder.
IGenomeDecoder <NeatGenome, IBlackBox> genomeDecoder = CreateGenomeDecoder();
// Create a genome list evaluator. This packages up the genome decoder with the genome evaluator.
IGenomeListEvaluator <NeatGenome> innerEvaluator = new SerialGenomeListEvaluator <NeatGenome, IBlackBox>(genomeDecoder, _evaluator);
/*new ParallelGenomeListEvaluator<NeatGenome, IBlackBox>(genomeDecoder, _evaluator, _parallelOptions);*/
// Wrap the list evaluator in a 'selective' evaulator that will only evaluate new genomes. That is, we skip re-evaluating any genomes
// that were in the population in previous generations (elite genomes). This is determined by examining each genome's evaluation info object.
IGenomeListEvaluator <NeatGenome> selectiveEvaluator = new SelectiveGenomeListEvaluator <NeatGenome>(
innerEvaluator,
SelectiveGenomeListEvaluator <NeatGenome> .CreatePredicate_OnceOnly());
// Initialize the evolution algorithm.
ea.Initialize(selectiveEvaluator, genomeFactory, genomeList);
// Finished. Return the evolution algorithm
return(ea);
}
public OCRClassificationView(IGenomeDecoder<NeatGenome, IBlackBox> genomeDecoder, IClassificationDataset dataset, IViewableEvaluator evaluator)
: this()
{
this.decoder = genomeDecoder;
this.dataset = dataset;
this.evaluator = evaluator;
dataset.LoadFromFile(@"Datasets\semeion.samples.data");
sampleCount = dataset.InputSamples.Count();
}
public OCRClassificationView(IGenomeDecoder <NeatGenome, IBlackBox> genomeDecoder, IClassificationDataset dataset, IViewableEvaluator evaluator)
: this()
{
this.decoder = genomeDecoder;
this.dataset = dataset;
this.evaluator = evaluator;
dataset.LoadFromFile(@"Datasets\semeion.samples.data");
sampleCount = dataset.InputSamples.Count();
}
/// <summary>
/// Create and return a NeatEvolutionAlgorithm object ready for running the NEAT algorithm/search. Various sub-parts
/// of the algorithm are also constructed and connected up.
/// This overload accepts a pre-built genome population and their associated/parent genome factory.
/// </summary>
public NeatEvolutionAlgorithm<NeatGenome> CreateEvolutionAlgorithm(IGenomeFactory<NeatGenome> genomeFactory, List<NeatGenome> genomeList)
{
// Create distance metric. Mismatched genes have a fixed distance of 10; for matched genes the distance is their weigth difference.
IDistanceMetric distanceMetric = new ManhattanDistanceMetric(1.0, 0.0, 10.0);
ISpeciationStrategy<NeatGenome> speciationStrategy = new ParallelKMeansClusteringStrategy<NeatGenome>(distanceMetric, _parallelOptions);
// Create complexity regulation strategy.
IComplexityRegulationStrategy complexityRegulationStrategy = ExperimentUtils.CreateComplexityRegulationStrategy(_complexityRegulationStr, _complexityThreshold);
// Create the evolution algorithm.
NeatEvolutionAlgorithm<NeatGenome> ea = new NeatEvolutionAlgorithm<NeatGenome>(_eaParams, speciationStrategy, complexityRegulationStrategy);
// Create IBlackBox evaluator.
_evaluator = CreateEvaluator();
// Create genome decoder.
IGenomeDecoder<NeatGenome, IBlackBox> genomeDecoder = CreateGenomeDecoder();
// Create a genome list evaluator. This packages up the genome decoder with the genome evaluator.
IGenomeListEvaluator<NeatGenome> innerEvaluator = new SerialGenomeListEvaluator<NeatGenome, IBlackBox>(genomeDecoder, _evaluator);
/*new ParallelGenomeListEvaluator<NeatGenome, IBlackBox>(genomeDecoder, _evaluator, _parallelOptions);*/
// Wrap the list evaluator in a 'selective' evaulator that will only evaluate new genomes. That is, we skip re-evaluating any genomes
// that were in the population in previous generations (elite genomes). This is determined by examining each genome's evaluation info object.
IGenomeListEvaluator<NeatGenome> selectiveEvaluator = new SelectiveGenomeListEvaluator<NeatGenome>(
innerEvaluator,
SelectiveGenomeListEvaluator<NeatGenome>.CreatePredicate_OnceOnly());
// Initialize the evolution algorithm.
ea.Initialize(selectiveEvaluator, genomeFactory, genomeList);
// Finished. Return the evolution algorithm
return ea;
}