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I guess sexual reproduction is kind of like sharing gradients. Is that what you mean?

• cshenton 9y ago
  Not quite, genetic algorithms represent the search space usually as bit sequences, so you can just mix subsequences from two parents, that's reproduction. In contrast, evolution strategies have a search distribution, and compute a gradient update to that distribution from an entire generation. So it's really more 'search gradients' than evolution. The only thing 'evolutionary' about it is that the minibatches are called generations.