Crossover (genetic algorithm)In genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation, crossover, also called recombination, is a genetic operator used to combine the genetic information of two parents to generate new offspring. It is one way to stochastically generate new solutions from an existing population, and is analogous to the crossover that happens during sexual reproduction in biology. Solutions can also be generated by cloning an existing solution, which is analogous to asexual reproduction. Newly generated solutions may be mutated before being added to the population.
Stochastic optimizationStochastic optimization (SO) methods are optimization methods that generate and use random variables. For stochastic problems, the random variables appear in the formulation of the optimization problem itself, which involves random objective functions or random constraints. Stochastic optimization methods also include methods with random iterates. Some stochastic optimization methods use random iterates to solve stochastic problems, combining both meanings of stochastic optimization.
Apprentissage par renforcementEn intelligence artificielle, plus précisément en apprentissage automatique, l'apprentissage par renforcement consiste, pour un agent autonome ( robot, agent conversationnel, personnage dans un jeu vidéo), à apprendre les actions à prendre, à partir d'expériences, de façon à optimiser une récompense quantitative au cours du temps. L'agent est plongé au sein d'un environnement et prend ses décisions en fonction de son état courant. En retour, l'environnement procure à l'agent une récompense, qui peut être positive ou négative.
