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A genetic algorithm is an optimization heuristic that is inspired by the principles that drive natural evolution: mutation, recombination and selection. In comparison to traditional search methods such as hill-climbing, genetic algorithms have the ability to escape from local minima/maxima.

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Image similarity measure

I'm attempting to speed up my genetic algorithm that modifies images. After searching, I've found that my fitness function is the bottleneck, taking sometimes up to 11 seconds to complete. The fitnes …
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Image similarity measure

Thanks to @wondra for the help. I rewrote the function without the getpixel and just loaded the pixels using the image.load() method. This caused the execution time to reduce down to 3.09 seconds. Re …
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