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Adding some randomness could help to avoid over-fitted populations. Then you could prevent to converge to a sub-optimal state and force the system to look beyon

Adding some randomness could help to avoid over-fitted populations. Then you could prevent to converge to a sub-optimal state and force the system to look beyond of what it seems the best.

bravura 17y ago
I thought mating was the main cause of genetic diversity, not mutation.
- a-priori 17y ago
  Mutation introduces new alleles, and mating recombines existing alleles. Both processes increase diversity.