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Prateek Joshi
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Prateek Joshi

Prateek Joshi is the founder of Plutoshift and a published author of 9 books on Artificial Intelligence. He has been featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, NBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, TechCrunch, and The Business Journals. He has been an invited speaker at conferences such as TEDx, Global Big Data Conference, Machine Learning Developers Conference, and Silicon Valley Deep Learning. Apart from Artificial Intelligence, some of the topics that excite him are number theory, cryptography, and quantum computing. His greater goal is to make Artificial Intelligence accessible to everyone so that it can impact billions of people around the world.
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Fundamental concepts in genetic algorithms

In order to build a GA, we need to understand several key concepts and terms. These concepts are used extensively throughout the field of GAs to build solutions to various problems. One of the most important aspects of GAs is randomness. In order to iterate, it relies on the random sampling of individuals. This means that the process is non-deterministic. So, if you run the same algorithm multiple times, you might end up with different solutions.

Let's now define the term population. A population is a set of individuals that are possible candidate solutions. In a GA, the single best solution is not maintained at any given stage but rather a set of potential solutions, one of which could be the best. But the other solutions play an important role during the search. Since the population of solutions is tracked, it is less likely to get stuck in a local optimum. Getting stuck in a local optimum is a classic problem faced by other optimization...

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Published in: Jan 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781839219535

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Prateek Joshi

Prateek Joshi is the founder of Plutoshift and a published author of 9 books on Artificial Intelligence. He has been featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, NBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, TechCrunch, and The Business Journals. He has been an invited speaker at conferences such as TEDx, Global Big Data Conference, Machine Learning Developers Conference, and Silicon Valley Deep Learning. Apart from Artificial Intelligence, some of the topics that excite him are number theory, cryptography, and quantum computing. His greater goal is to make Artificial Intelligence accessible to everyone so that it can impact billions of people around the world.
Read more about Prateek Joshi