Changelog¶

v0.2.0 (03-02-2020)¶

Removed old user_guide.md and replaced with more extensive documentation (includes an overhaul of the Examples)
Added parameterization for initialziation ranges of means and covariances
Added run_step() method to step through a run (yielding control every time), and accompanying example
Added more generic plotting method to generator (see e.g. plot_best_indivs())
Enabled “multi_config” for multiple mutation operators (all mutation operators now have their defaults arguments in the default JSON file). See Parameters for further details.
Added config options for parental and environmental selection
Added argument to select the comparison method for determining the best individual from the final population (by fitness or rank determined by stochastic ranking)
Added more plotting functions (essentially just wrappers for seaborn)
Added more arguments for plotting, such as automatic cleaning of labels and placement of legends, and hatching for boxplots
Consolidated prepare.py into the BaseGenerator
Fixed various inconsistencies/bugs
Expanded tests

Added functions for cluster analysis and instance space (both creation and plotting)
Problem features for instance space are in problem_features.py
Added extra test for overlap computation
Added examples for the new features
Added ability to produce an animation of a single run (producing the gif requires the command-line convert utility from ImageMagick)
General improvements to workflow and reduced some unnecessary computation