Fantastic.  Thank you guys for a quick turn around!  I'll take it for a
spin and let you know if I encounter any more issues.

Siggy

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Sean Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Actually, it's a bug in the first generation loop of CMA-ES: we were not
> scaling the covariance matrix by sigma, but rather leaving it as the
> identity matrix the first time around.  This is a minor bug but could
> result in CMA-ES going into, effectively, an infinite loop as it tries and
> fails to generate individuals within unusual min/max gene bounds.
>
> We've fixed it as follows.  First, we fixed the bug.  Secondly, we added
> the ability to prescale the covariance matrix by min/max gene bounds to
> reduce the loop time; and third, we added an alternative
> individual-generation process to further reduce loop time.  See the manual
> for more explanation.
>
> Anyway, fix pushed out.
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Mar 30, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Sean Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > This doesn't appear to be due to segments, but rather due to the small
> min/max range of the segments, which is causing an inordinate number of
> invalid individuals.  However that should *not* be an issue, so we'll look
> into what the initialization issue is.
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> >> From: "Eric 'Siggy' Scott" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Subject: CMA-ES hangs when segments are used
> >> Date: March 29, 2016 at 9:45:49 PM EDT
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Reply-To: ECJ Evolutionary Computation Toolkit <
> [log in to unmask]>
> >>
> >> Using the latest snapshot from GitHub, I find that, if I use segments
> in my genome, CMA-ES silently gets stuck before the first generation is
> evaluated.
> >>
> >> Attached is a MWE.
> >>
> >> I'm guessing that some background thread has silently crashed while the
> main thread was waiting for it?
> >>
> >> Siggy
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Ph.D student in Computer Science, George Mason University
> >> CFO and Web Director, Journal of Mason Graduate Research
> >> http://mason.gmu.edu/~escott8/
> >
>



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http://mason.gmu.edu/~escott8/