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Population Measure Terminator


Population Measure Terminator



 An abstract class giving the framework for terminators based on
 a population measure converging for a given time (number of evaluations or 
 generations).
 The class detects changes of a population P using a measure m over time and may signal convergence 
 if the measure m(P) behaved in a certain way for a given time. Convergence may
 be signaled 
 
  if the measure reached absolute values below convThresh (absolute value),
  if the measure remained within m(P)+/-convThresh (absolute change),
  if the measure remained above m(P)-convThresh (absolute change and regard improvement only),
  if the measure remained within m(P)*[1-convThresh, 1+convThresh] (relative change),
  if the measure remained above m(P)*(1-convThresh) (relative change and regard improvement only).
 
The fitness convergence terminator stops the optimization, when there has been hardly 
any change in the best fitness in the population (within percentual or absolute distance) for a certain 
time, given in generations or fitness calls. In case of multi-objective optimization, the 2-norm of
the fitness vector is
currently used.

Be aware that, if the optimization is allowed to be non-monotonic, such as for (,)-ES strategies,
and if the optimum is close to zero, it may happen that the fitness fluctuates due to numeric 
issues and does not easily converge in a relative way.