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Its a fair point, but genetic algorithms could be used on known problems to discover something new. You might think you know enough to try an educated guess, b
by roundsquare 17y ago
Its a fair point, but genetic algorithms could be used on known problems to discover something new. You might think you know enough to try an educated guess, but there might be some area of the search space that the theory you are using hasn't covered.
That being said, I don't know anything about image compression and we may well have a provably best way to do this...
- indrax 17y agoI've thought about your comment for a while. If you want to test for potentially interesting search space, you should do so systematically, not randomly. A random scattering could leave vast areas unsearched, and you might not even know. (I think you'd have to look at a visualization that happened to make it clear, or do some other analysis.) Covering the entire search space evenly is a better approach to start with. Increasing the frequency around high scoring points would automatically dig down into interesting regions.