首先，Jonathan Koza的《遗传编程》(在亚马逊上)几乎是一本关于遗传和进化算法/编程技术的书，有很多例子。我强烈建议你去看看。

As for my own use of a genetic algorithm, I used a (home grown) genetic algorithm to evolve a swarm algorithm for an object collection/destruction scenario (practical purpose could have been clearing a minefield). Here is a link to the paper. The most interesting part of what I did was the multi-staged fitness function, which was a necessity since the simple fitness functions did not provide enough information for the genetic algorithm to sufficiently differentiate between members of the population.

在读完《盲人钟表匠》之后，我对道金斯所说的帕斯卡程序产生了兴趣，他开发了一个可以随着时间进化的生物模型。我对使用Swarm编写自己的程序很感兴趣。我没有画出他画的那些奇特的生物图形，但我的“染色体”控制着影响生物体生存能力的特征。他们生活在一个简单的世界里，可以与彼此和环境决一死战。

生物的生存或死亡部分取决于偶然性，但也取决于它们如何有效地适应当地环境，如何有效地消耗营养物质以及如何成功地繁殖。这很有趣，但也向我妻子证明了我是一个极客。

我不知道家庭作业算不算…

在我学习期间，我们推出了自己的程序来解决旅行推销员问题。

我们的想法是对几个标准进行比较(映射问题的难度，性能等)，我们还使用了其他技术，如模拟退火。

它运行得很好，但我们花了一段时间来理解如何正确地进行“复制”阶段:将手头的问题建模成适合遗传编程的东西，这对我来说是最难的部分……

这是一门有趣的课程，因为我们也涉猎了神经网络之类的知识。

我想知道是否有人在“生产”代码中使用这种编程。

没有家庭作业。

1995年，我作为专业程序员的第一份工作是为标准普尔500指数期货编写一个基于遗传算法的自动交易系统。该应用程序是用Visual Basic 3 [!我不知道我当时是怎么做的，因为VB3甚至没有课程。

The application started with a population of randomly-generated fixed-length strings (the "gene" part), each of which corresponded to a specific shape in the minute-by-minute price data of the S&P500 futures, as well as a specific order (buy or sell) and stop-loss and stop-profit amounts. Each string (or "gene") had its profit performance evaluated by a run through 3 years of historical data; whenever the specified "shape" matched the historical data, I assumed the corresponding buy or sell order and evaluated the trade's result. I added the caveat that each gene started with a fixed amount of money and could thus potentially go broke and be removed from the gene pool entirely.

在对种群的每一次评估之后，幸存者被随机杂交(通过混合来自两个亲本的片段)，一个基因被选择为亲本的可能性与它产生的利润成正比。我还添加了点突变的可能性，让事情变得有趣一点。经过几百代这样的基因，我最终得到了一个基因群，它可以把5000美元变成平均约10000美元，而且没有死亡/破碎的可能性(当然是在历史数据上)。

Unfortunately, I never got the chance to use this system live, since my boss lost close to $100,000 in less than 3 months trading the traditional way, and he lost his willingness to continue with the project. In retrospect, I think the system would have made huge profits - not because I was necessarily doing anything right, but because the population of genes that I produced happened to be biased towards buy orders (as opposed to sell orders) by about a 5:1 ratio. And as we know with our 20/20 hindsight, the market went up a bit after 1995.

足球引爆。我建立了一个GA系统来预测每周澳式足球比赛的结果。

A few years ago I got bored of the standard work football pool, everybody was just going online and taking the picks from some pundit in the press. So, I figured it couldn't be too hard to beat a bunch of broadcast journalism majors, right? My first thought was to take the results from Massey Ratings and then reveal at the end of the season my strategy after winning fame and glory. However, for reasons I've never discovered Massey does not track AFL. The cynic in me believes it is because the outcome of each AFL game has basically become random chance, but my complaints of recent rule changes belong in a different forum.

该系统基本上考虑了进攻强度、防守强度、主场优势、每周的改进(或缺乏)以及这些方面的变化速度。这为每支球队在整个赛季中建立了一组多项式方程。可以计算给定日期的每场比赛的获胜者和分数。我们的目标是找到最接近过去所有游戏结果的系数集，并使用该集合来预测接下来几周的游戏。

在实践中，该系统将找到能够准确预测过去90%以上游戏结果的解决方案。然后，它会成功地为即将到来的一周(即不在训练集中的那一周)挑选大约60-80%的比赛。

结果是:略高于中游水平。没有巨额奖金也没有能打败维加斯的系统。不过很有趣。

我从零开始构建一切，没有使用任何框架。

Several years ago I used ga's to optimize asr (automatic speech recognition) grammars for better recognition rates. I started with fairly simple lists of choices (where the ga was testing combinations of possible terms for each slot) and worked my way up to more open and complex grammars. Fitness was determined by measuring separation between terms/sequences under a kind of phonetic distance function. I also experimented with making weakly equivalent variations on a grammar to find one that compiled to a more compact representation (in the end I went with a direct algorithm, and it drastically increased the size of the "language" that we could use in applications).

最近，我将它们用作默认假设，以此来测试由各种算法生成的解决方案的质量。这主要涉及分类和不同类型的拟合问题(即创建一个“规则”，解释审查员对数据集所做的一组选择)。