Individual

An Individual is the atomic unit of evolution — the genome that is mutated, recombined, and selected across generations. The Individual protocol is intentionally minimal (it specifies nothing beyond identity), allowing any genome representation: boolean bitstreams, integers, trees, or arbitrary structures.

Individuals are held inside a Population and may be converted into one or more Circuit objects by a CircuitFactory for hardware evaluation.

Implementations

• BitstreamIndividual.py — A genome represented as a list of boolean bits, with mutation (bit-flip) and crossover operators. Used by GenerateBitstreamPopulation for real FPGA experiments.