Genetic Algorithm options 'PopInitRange' not working
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I am using GAOPTIMSET to establish an upper and lower bound for my initial population in a GA optimisation.
I have abbreviated my inputs as below:
InitPopRange = [0.0076 0.0030 0.0011 0.0004 0.0068 0.0004; 0.0303 0.0068 0.0149 0.0049 0.0118 0.0303];
Options = gaoptimset('PopInitRange' , InitPopRange);
The optimisation kept crashing in my fitness function just after the very first individual had been created. During debugging, I noticed that my first individual had the following values:
x = [0.2508 0.0000 0.0000 0.2132 0.0970 1.0000];
Why is it that every single value of x falls outside InitPopRange? This is what has caused my fitness function to crash.
Obviously the work-around solution for me is to create my own initial population using a random number generator and apply my own limits. I'm just curious to know why the GA has seemingly ignored my option for initial population range. Any ideas?
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Matt J
il 11 Giu 2013
I noticed that my first individual had the following values:
What method did you use to observe the individuals? How do you know this individual was the "first"?
Even if you do succeed in getting the Initial Population that you want, what is to prevent the population from evolving at later iterations into a region which causes your fitness function to crash?
Because this is a Genetic Algorithm, the fitness function doesn't have to be smooth/continuous, so I think one normally defines the fitness function to return a safe value everywhere.
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Alan Weiss
il 11 Giu 2013
I believe that the problem is that you have linear constraints. By default, ga uses the gacreationlinearfeasible function to create individuals in that case, and gacreationlinearfeasible does not pay attention to PopInitRange when there are linear constraints. To see how it works, look at this example.
You can choose to use the gacreationuniform creation function, which does exactly what you think it should when you pass in an initial range (it creates individuals uniformly between the bounds given in the initial range). To use this function,
options = gaoptimset('CreationFcn',@gacreationuniform,...);
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