A strongly-typed genetic programming framework for Python
"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum."
monkeys
is a framework designed to make genetic programming in Python accessible, quick, flexible, and fun.
Genetic programming algorithms are a class of evolutionary algorithms in which solutions to a problem are represented as executable tree structures - programs. In order to use genetic programming in order to solve a problem, two things must be specified:
What form(s) a potential solution can take.
A method of scoring solutions based on their meritoriousness.
Given these, a genetic programming system can perform intelligent exploration and search through the space of potential solutions, narrowing in on those programs that best solve the problem as specified. Genetic programming has achieved human-competitive results in a wide swath of domains, including:
"Ford, there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out."
monkeys
makes getting started with genetic programming painless and fun. Install monkeys
by running:
pip install monkeys
monkeys
uses a variant of genetic programming called "strongly-typed genetic programming" in order to allow you to quickly and easily
specify how your programs should be structured.
monkeys
supports Python 2.7 and 3.x.
monkeys
framework, which outlines the type system.monkeys
to generate Python code directly.monkeys
.monkeys
diagnostic tool.