Using Gray codes with these algorithms avoids the "Hamming cliff.
Using Gray codes with these algorithms avoids the "Hamming cliff." Avoiding a "takeover" is important for these algorithms, as explicated by David Goldberg in a famous book about them. An operator used by these algorithms can be k-point, uniform, order based, or partially matched. These intrinsically parallel algorithms combine items with "don't cares" and a short defining length, called schema, to "build" a solution from "blocks" of subsolutions. John Holland mostly developed the classical version of these algorithms, which maintain a set of binary strings that undergo crossover, mutation, and selection to maximize fitness. For 10 points, name this type of algorithm that operates on strings that represent chromosomes.
Using Gray codes with these algorithms avoids the "Hamming cliff.
genetic algorithms [prompt on "evolutionary algorithms"; prompt on "machine learning"]