Population

A Population holds a collection of (Individual, Fitness | None) pairs. It supports fitness assignment (by index or by Individual reference), sorting by fitness, and iteration. All Individuals in a Population must be unique objects.

Populations are created by a GenerateInitialPopulation factory at the start of evolution, and by a Reproducer at the end of each generation.

Implementations

• PopulationInitialization.py — Factories for creating initial populations, including GenerateBitstreamPopulation which produces populations of BitstreamIndividual with random or seeded bitstreams.