/// <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 genome2 population and their associated/parent genome2 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 genome decoder.
IGenomeDecoder <NeatGenome, IBlackBox> genomeDecoder = CreateGenomeDecoder();
// Create a genome list evaluator. This packages up the genome decoder with the phenome evaluator.
IGenomeListEvaluator <NeatGenome> genomeListEvaluator = new ParallelCoevolutionListEvaluator <NeatGenome, IBlackBox>(genomeDecoder, PhenomeEvaluator);
// Wrap a hall of fame evaluator around the baseline evaluator.
//genomeListEvaluator = new ParallelHallOfFameListEvaluator<NeatGenome, IBlackBox>(50, 0.5, ea, genomeListEvaluator, genomeDecoder, PhenomeEvaluator);
// Initialize the evolution algorithm.
ea.Initialize(genomeListEvaluator, genomeFactory, genomeList);
// Finished. Return the evolution algorithm
return(ea);
}
/// <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 genome2 population and their associated/parent genome2 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 genome decoder.
IGenomeDecoder<NeatGenome, IBlackBox> genomeDecoder = CreateGenomeDecoder();
// Create a genome list evaluator. This packages up the genome decoder with the phenome evaluator.
IGenomeListEvaluator<NeatGenome> genomeListEvaluator = new ParallelCoevolutionListEvaluator<NeatGenome, IBlackBox>(genomeDecoder, PhenomeEvaluator);
// Wrap a hall of fame evaluator around the baseline evaluator.
//genomeListEvaluator = new ParallelHallOfFameListEvaluator<NeatGenome, IBlackBox>(50, 0.5, ea, genomeListEvaluator, genomeDecoder, PhenomeEvaluator);
// Initialize the evolution algorithm.
ea.Initialize(genomeListEvaluator, genomeFactory, genomeList);
// Finished. Return the evolution algorithm
return ea;
}
