Evolutionary Computation

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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Evolutionary Computation.

• Evolutionary Algorithm — A population-based stochastic search family that repeatedly evaluates encoded candidates, selects parents or survivors, creates heritable variants, and replaces population members.
• Population-based incremental learning — An estimation-of-distribution optimizer that evolves a probability vector summarizing successful sampled solutions instead of maintaining genetic individuals across generations.
• Premature convergence — The failure mode in an evolutionary algorithm where population diversity collapses around a suboptimal region before adequate exploration occurs.