Hello Paritosh, When I downloaded Mahout's source-code I found out that it actually have support for GA. However, I didn't really have a chance to play with it yet. I don't believe you would see any reference to it in the MiA book though. There is also a module on Evolutionary Processes (EP), which I believe is related to the Evolutionary Computation (Evolutionary Strategies, Genetic Programming) but not exactly sure. From what I saw in the source, it is already designed around MapReduce so it should scale really well for you. Please share your finding with list.
Good luck exploring! -Ahmed On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Paritosh Ranjan <[email protected]> wrote: > Is Mahout having any implementation of genetic algorithm? > > I need to choose the optimal configuration for running some process. The > configuration has around 20-30 parameters. > I also have access to some expected output. > > Right now, I am creating random configurations, evaluating them on sample > output ( for both positive and negative scenarios ), and pick the best of > them and do mutation and crossover. > > Is mahout having something of this sort? If yes, I can use that. If not, I > can work to create something like this. > > Paritosh >
