Optimizing genomes before saving

[yaricom]

Optimizing genomes before saving

[yaricom]

Hello @qwertyuu, it is nice to hear that my library was helpful for your project. It gives me further incentives to continue my work on this library.

The NEAT algorithm is genetic algorithm trying to mimic natural evolution process. So, it is natural that genome can have some parts which seems non functional at given epoch of evolution. However, we should take in mind that as in natural evolution, the dormant parts of genome can express some beneficial features at later epochs.

Thus, I think it can be beneficial to introduce some kind of genome pruning for organisms that you don't want to evolve any further. However, while evolution still in progress this can be harmful.

Thank you for nice input. I'll keep it on my to-do list for the future versions.