Asynchronous Differential Evolution, with efficient multiprocessing
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Differential Evolution (DE) is a type of genetic algorithm that works especially well for optimizing combinations of real-valued variables. The ade Python package does simple and smart population initialization, informative progress reporting, adaptation of the vector differential scaling factor F based on how much each generation is improving, and automatic termination after a reasonable level of convergence to the best solution.
But most significantly, ade performs Differential Evolution asynchronously. When running on a multicore CPU or cluster, ade can get the DE processing done several times faster than standard single-threaded DE. It does this without departing in any way from the numeric operations performed by the classic Storn and Price algorithm, using either a randomly chosen or best candidate scheme.
You get a substantial multiprocessing speed-up and the
well-understood, time-tested behavior of the classic DE/rand/1/bin
or DE/best/1/bin algorithm. (You can pick which one to use.) The
very same target and base selection, mutation, scaling, and
crossover are done for a sequence of targets in the population, just
like you're used to. The underlying numeric recipe is not altered at
all, but everything runs a lot faster.
How is this possible? The answer is found in asynchronous processing and the deferred lock concurrency mechanism provided by the Twisted framework. Read the detailed tutorial at http://edsuom.com/ade.html to find out more.
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