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Provable statements about genetic algorithms
Genetic algorithms don't get much traction in the world of theory, but they are a reasonably well-used metaheuristic method (by metaheuristic I mean a technique that applies generically across many problems, like annealing, gradient descent, and the like). In fact, a GA-like technique is quite effective for Euclidean TSP in practice. Some metaheuristics are reasonably well studied theoretically: there's work on local search, and annealing. We have a pretty good sense of how alternating optimization ( like k-means ) works. But as far as I know, there's nothing really useful known about genetic algorithms. Is there any solid algorithmic/complexity theory about the behavior of genetic algorithms, in any way, shape or form? While I've heard of things like schema theory, I'd exclude it from discussion based on my current understanding of the area for not being particularly algorithmic (but I might be mistaken here).
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