===================================== Knapsack Problem: Inheriting from Set ===================================== Again for this example we will use a very simple problem, the 0-1 Knapsack. The purpose of this example is to show the simplicity of DEAP and the ease to inherit from anything else than a simple list or array. Many evolutionary algorithm textbooks mention that the best way to have an efficient algorithm is to have a representation close the problem. Here, what can be closer to a bag than a set? Lets make our individuals inherit from the :class:`set` class. .. literalinclude:: /../examples/ga/knapsack.py :lines: 41-42 That's it. You now have individuals that are, in fact sets, they have the usual attribute :attr:`fitness`. The fitness is a minimization of the first objective (the weight of the bag) and a maximization of the second objective (the value of the bag). We will now create a dictionary of 100 random items to map the values and weights. .. literalinclude:: /../examples/ga/knapsack.py :lines: 34-39 We now need to initialize a population and the individuals therein. For this, we will need a :class:`~deap.base.Toolbox` to register our generators since sets can also be created with an input iterable. .. literalinclude:: /../examples/ga/knapsack.py :lines: 44,47,50-53 VoilĂ ! The *last* thing to do is to define our evaluation function. .. literalinclude:: /../examples/ga/knapsack.py :pyobject: evalKnapsack Everything is ready for evolution. Ho no wait, since DEAP's developers are lazy, there is no crossover and mutation operators that can be applied directly on sets. Lets define some. For example, a crossover, producing two children from two parents, could be that the first child is the intersection of the two sets and the second child their absolute difference. .. literalinclude:: /../examples/ga/knapsack.py :pyobject: cxSet A mutation operator could randomly add or remove an element from the set input individual. .. literalinclude:: /../examples/ga/knapsack.py :pyobject: mutSet We then register these operators in the toolbox. Since it is a multi-objective problem, we have selected the NSGA-II selection scheme : :func:`~deap.tools.selNSGA2` .. literalinclude:: /../examples/ga/knapsack.py :lines: 83-86 From here, all that is left to do is either write the algorithm or use provided in :mod:`~deap.algorithms`. Here we will use the :func:`~deap.algorithms.eaMuPlusLambda` algorithm. .. literalinclude:: /../examples/ga/knapsack.py :lines: 88,90-107 Finally, a :class:`~deap.tools.ParetoFront` may be used to retrieve the best non dominated individuals of the evolution and a :class:`~deap.tools.Statistics` object is created for compiling four different statistics over the generations. The Numpy functions are registered in the statistics object with the ``axis=0`` argument to compute the statistics on each objective independently. Otherwise, Numpy would compute a single mean for both objectives. The complete :example:`ga/knapsack`.