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evolutionary algorithm

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noun

  1. computing a computer program that is designed to evolve and improve in response to input

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The researchers tested the performance of the neural network by using an evolutionary algorithm to train it to distinguish between German and English texts.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023

An evolutionary algorithm produces variations based on the assistance profiles that those earlier users preferred, and then the predictor -- a neural network -- ranked those assistance profiles.

From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023

The expectation was that the evolutionary algorithm would discover images that most faithfully represented cheetahness, the Platonic idea of a cheetah.

From Scientific American • Nov. 2, 2015

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