EC is parallel search (many balls in the landscape). Want to prevent all individuals from converging to the same solution (premature convergence – a common problem) The task of mutation is to prevent this – to maintain diversity in the population. To inject ne…

From course, I learned Evolutional Computing. Evolutionary computing (EC) population method Used for problems where the task is to maximize some measure of success Same family of problems as in RL, but very different methods Methods inspired by genetics, natur…