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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

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.

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A replicator is information that undergoes the evolutionary algorithm.

From Scientific American

The robots, which are less than 1mm long, are designed by an “evolutionary algorithm” that runs on a supercomputer.

From The Guardian

The researchers fed the wing speed data into the evolutionary algorithm, which produced a second generation of eight “daughter” wings.

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