The mechanisms of differential evolution are best explained by example. In Figure 3 the goal is to minimize the simple sphere function (rather than the complex Rastrigin function used by the demo ...

Frances Arnold, the Caltech scientist who shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, says evolution can show us how to solve problems of sustainability. “I’m an engineer, trained as an engineer ...

He added that the multiplicative weight updates algorithm “is amazingly effective, and where it’s been used in computer science it does wonders. Now we’re noticing that nature uses this algorithm in ...