Glossary of Genetic Programming Terms Population Term

A collection of Individuals.

Remarks

A Population is a collection of Individuals. Generally, the only Population of concern is the Current Generation, which contains newly created Individuals and those that survived from earlierGenerations.

Design Note

In this framework, the Population class is used to keep track of the current Generation and to generate code for the Individuals therein. The Population class works with IndividualInfos, the in-memory representation of IIndividuals before they are compiled.

See Also

Population Class | Generation Term | IndividualInfo Class

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