/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.apache.commons.math3.genetics; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.List; import org.apache.commons.math3.exception.NotPositiveException; import org.apache.commons.math3.exception.NullArgumentException; import org.apache.commons.math3.exception.NumberIsTooLargeException; import org.apache.commons.math3.exception.OutOfRangeException; import org.apache.commons.math3.exception.util.LocalizedFormats; import org.apache.commons.math3.util.FastMath; /** * Population of chromosomes which uses elitism (certain percentage of the best * chromosomes is directly copied to the next generation). * * @since 2.0 */ public class ElitisticListPopulation extends ListPopulation { /** percentage of chromosomes copied to the next generation */ private double elitismRate = 0.9; /** * Creates a new {@link ElitisticListPopulation} instance. * * @param chromosomes list of chromosomes in the population * @param populationLimit maximal size of the population * @param elitismRate how many best chromosomes will be directly transferred to the next generation [in %] * @throws NullArgumentException if the list of chromosomes is {@code null} * @throws NotPositiveException if the population limit is not a positive number (< 1) * @throws NumberIsTooLargeException if the list of chromosomes exceeds the population limit * @throws OutOfRangeException if the elitism rate is outside the [0, 1] range */ public ElitisticListPopulation(final List<Chromosome> chromosomes, final int populationLimit, final double elitismRate) throws NullArgumentException, NotPositiveException, NumberIsTooLargeException, OutOfRangeException { super(chromosomes, populationLimit); setElitismRate(elitismRate); } /** * Creates a new {@link ElitisticListPopulation} instance and initializes its inner chromosome list. * * @param populationLimit maximal size of the population * @param elitismRate how many best chromosomes will be directly transferred to the next generation [in %] * @throws NotPositiveException if the population limit is not a positive number (< 1) * @throws OutOfRangeException if the elitism rate is outside the [0, 1] range */ public ElitisticListPopulation(final int populationLimit, final double elitismRate) throws NotPositiveException, OutOfRangeException { super(populationLimit); setElitismRate(elitismRate); } /** * Start the population for the next generation. The <code>{@link #elitismRate}</code> * percents of the best chromosomes are directly copied to the next generation. * * @return the beginnings of the next generation. */ public Population nextGeneration() { // initialize a new generation with the same parameters ElitisticListPopulation nextGeneration = new ElitisticListPopulation(getPopulationLimit(), getElitismRate()); final List<Chromosome> oldChromosomes = getChromosomeList(); Collections.sort(oldChromosomes); // index of the last "not good enough" chromosome int boundIndex = (int) FastMath.ceil((1.0 - getElitismRate()) * oldChromosomes.size()); for (int i = boundIndex; i < oldChromosomes.size(); i++) { nextGeneration.addChromosome(oldChromosomes.get(i)); } return nextGeneration; } /** * Sets the elitism rate, i.e. how many best chromosomes will be directly transferred to the next generation [in %]. * * @param elitismRate how many best chromosomes will be directly transferred to the next generation [in %] * @throws OutOfRangeException if the elitism rate is outside the [0, 1] range */ public void setElitismRate(final double elitismRate) throws OutOfRangeException { if (elitismRate < 0 || elitismRate > 1) { throw new OutOfRangeException(LocalizedFormats.ELITISM_RATE, elitismRate, 0, 1); } this.elitismRate = elitismRate; } /** * Access the elitism rate. * @return the elitism rate */ public double getElitismRate() { return this.elitismRate; } }