propeller

Yet another Push-based genetic programming system in Clojure.

Usage

If you have installed leiningen, which is a tool for running Clojure programs, then you can run Propeller on a genetic programming problem that is defined within this project from the command line with the command lein run -m <namespace>, replacing <namespace> with the actual namespace that you will find at the top of the problem file.

For example, you can run the simple-regression genetic programming problem with:

lein run -m propeller.problems.simple-regression

Additional command-line arguments may be provided to override the default key/value pairs specified in the problem file, for example:

lein run -m propeller.problems.simple-regression :population-size 100

On Unix operating systems, including MacOS, you can use something like the following to send output both to the terminal and to a text file (called outfile in this example):

lein run -m propeller.problems.simple-regression | tee outfile

If you want to provide command line arguments that include characters that may be interpreted by your command line shell before they get to Clojure, then enclose those in double quotes, like in this example that provides a non-default value for the :variation argument, which is a clojure map containing curly brackets that may confuse your shell:

lein run -m propeller.problems.simple-regression :variation "{:umad 1.0}"

To run a genetic programming problem from a REPL, start your REPL for the project (e.g. with lein repl at the command line when in the project directory, or through your IDE) and then do something like the following (which in this case runs the simple-regression problem with :population-size 100):

(require 'propeller.problems.simple-regression)
(in-ns 'propeller.problems.simple-regression)
(-main :population-size 100 :variation {:umad 1.0})

If you want to run the problem with the default parameters, then you should call -main without arguments, as (-main).

CLJS Usage

Development

Run in development:

yarn
(mkdir -p target && cp assets/index.html target/)
yarn shadow-cljs watch app

shadow-cljs will be installed in node_modules/ when you run yarn.

:dev-http specifies that target/ will be served at http://localhost:8080 .

REPL

After page is loaded, you may also start a REPL connected to browser with:

yarn shadow-cljs cljs-repl app

Once the REPL is loaded, load the core namespace with:

(ns propeller.core)

Calling (-main) will run the default genetic programming problem.

Description

Propel is an implementation of the Push programming language and the PushGP genetic programming system in Clojure.

For more information on Push and PushGP see http://pushlanguage.org.