Best Value Selector

Selector that selects the top n_select individuals based on the fitness value, breaking ties randomly. When n_select is larger than the number of individuals, the selection wraps around: All nrow(values) individuals are selected at least floor(nrow(values) / n_select) times, with the top nrow(values) %% n_select individuals being selected one more time.

Configuration Parameters

• shuffle_selection :: logical(1)
  Whether to shuffle the selected output. When this is TRUE, selected individuals are returned in random order, so when this operator is e.g. used in mies_generate_offspring(), then subsequent recombination operators effectively operate on pairs (or larger groups) of random individuals. Otherwise they are returned in order, and recombination operates on the first batch of n_indivs_in returned individuals first, then the second batch etc. in order. Initialized to TRUE (recommended).

Supported Operand Types

Supported Param classes are: ParamLgl, ParamInt, ParamDbl, ParamFct

Dictionary

This Selector can be created with the short access form sel() (sels() to get a list), or through the the dictionary dict_selectors in the following way:

# preferred:
sel("best")
sels("best")  # takes vector IDs, returns list of Selectors

# long form:
dict_selectors$get("best")

See also

Other selectors: Selector, SelectorScalar, dict_selectors_maybe, dict_selectors_null, dict_selectors_proxy, dict_selectors_random, dict_selectors_sequential, dict_selectors_tournament

Super classes

miesmuschel::MiesOperator -> miesmuschel::Selector -> miesmuschel::SelectorScalar -> SelectorBest

Methods

Public methods

• SelectorBest$new()

• SelectorBest$clone()

Inherited methods

• miesmuschel::MiesOperator$help()
• miesmuschel::MiesOperator$operate()
• miesmuschel::MiesOperator$print()
• miesmuschel::MiesOperator$repr()
• miesmuschel::SelectorScalar$prime()

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Method new()

Initialize the SelectorBest object.

Usage

SelectorBest$new(scalor = ScalorSingleObjective$new())

Arguments

scalor

(Scalor)
Scalor to use to generate scalar values from multiple objectives, if multi-objective optimization is performed. Initialized to ScalorSingleObjective: Doing single-objective optimization normally, throwing an error if used in multi-objective setting: In that case, a Scalor needs to be explicitly chosen.

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Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

SelectorBest$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

Examples

sb = sel("best")
p = ps(x = p_dbl(-5, 5))
# dummy data; note that SelectorBest does not depend on data content
data = data.frame(x = rep(0, 5))
fitnesses = c(1, 5, 2, 3, 0)

sb$prime(p)

sb$operate(data, fitnesses, 2)
#> [1] 2 4

sb$param_set$values$shuffle_selection = FALSE

sb$operate(data, fitnesses, 4)
#> [1] 2 4 3 1