Comment on Self-fulfilling correlations

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:14:41 GMT

Fair points. In my mind those techniques are all taxonomically related, close in conceptual space, but some of the boundaries are fuzzy. I'm not even sure what the general category is called, but 'evolutionary search' is what I roughly mean by "the space of algorithms that includes GA variants and simulated annealing, plus some other stuff". Perhaps they aren't that close, but thats where map stands and what I meant.

But anyway, no GA algorithms vary the mutation or crossover parameters over time? That would be closer to SA then. I thought the similarity between SA and GA is they both explore a set of points in solution space simultaneously and thus are more generally robust vs single point exploratory techniques.

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