Learning Genetic Algorithms with Python

Refuel your AI Models and ML applications with High-Quality Optimization and Search Solutions

Key Features

• Complete coverage on practical implementation of genetic algorithms.
• Intuitive explanations and visualizations supply theoretical concept.
• Added examples and use-cases on the performance of genetic algorithm.
• Use of Python libraries and a niche coverage on the performance optimization of genetic algorithms.

Description

Genetic algorithms are one of the most straightforward and powerful techniques used in machine learning. This book ‘Learning Genetic Algorithms with Python’ guides the reader right from the basics of genetic algorithms to its real practical implementation in production environments.

Each of the chapters gives the reader an intuitive understanding of each concept. You will learn how to build a genetic algorithm from scratch and implement it in real-life problems. Covered with practical illustrated examples, you will learn to design and choose the best model architecture for the particular tasks. Cutting edge examples like radar and football manager problem statements, you will learn to solve high-dimensional big data challenges with ways of optimizing genetic algorithms.

What you will learn

• Understand the mechanism of genetic algorithms using popular python libraries.
• Learn the principles and architecture of genetic algorithms.
• Apply and Solve planning, scheduling and analytics problems in Enterprise applications.
• Expert learning on prime concepts like Selection, Mutation and Crossover.

Who this book is for

The book is for Data Science team, Analytics team, AI Engineers, ML Professionals who want to integrate genetic algorithms to refuel their ML and AI applications. No special expertise about machine learning is required although a basic knowledge of Python is expected.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Genetic Algorithm Flow

3. Selection

4. Crossover

5. Mutation

6. Effectiveness

7. Parameter Tuning

8. Black-box Function

9. Combinatorial Optimization: Binary Gene Encoding

10. Combinatorial Optimization: Ordered Gene Encoding

11. Other Common Problems

12. Adaptive Genetic Algorithm

13. Improving Performance