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> the problem you're trying to solve is not very time critical (GA can take seconds to minutes depending on your problem) Ha. Days or weeks is typical for comp

• horyzen 7y ago
  In the specific area I worked on, minutes are borderline tolerable so I didn't think twice before posting. But now that you said it, I totally see how it can go on for days.
  • richk449 7y ago
    Interesting. What is the application that need ga and can’t tolerate minutes of evaluation?
    • horyzen 7y ago
      Let's just say the "customers" are impatient for a good enough solution that is part of a iterative workflow :)
• GordonS 7y ago
  Yep, I recently worked on an engineering project, where GAs were used to evolve new designs for large steel structures, with the aim of reducing weight (and, ergo, cost). There were a lot of constraints, and several applications were used at different points (e.g. specialised 3D CAD) - a single generation took around 1 hour, so we had to let it run for days at a time on a cluster to be useful.
  • faceplanted 7y ago
    Which genetic algorithm were you using?
    • GordonS 7y ago
      I wasn't in the AI team (I was the architect for the cloud infrastructure and backend), but my understanding was it was pretty much a "textbook" implementation (I dabbled with GAs, basic neural networks and swarm optimisation several years ago). I actually kind of surprised, because I didn't realise people still used GAs any more, let alone such a standard implementation.