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DEAP

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DEAP is a novel evolutionary computation framework for rapid prototyping and testing of ideas. It seeks to make algorithms explicit and data structures transparent. It works in perfect harmony with parallelisation mechanisms such as multiprocessing and SCOOP.

DEAP includes the following features:

Downloads

Following acceptance of PEP 438 by the Python community, we have moved DEAP's source releases on PyPI.

You can find the most recent releases at: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/deap/.

Documentation

See the DEAP User's Guide for DEAP documentation.

In order to get the tip documentation, change directory to the doc subfolder and type in make html, the documentation will be under _build/html. You will need Sphinx to build the documentation.

Notebooks

Also checkout our new notebook examples. Using Jupyter notebooks you'll be able to navigate and execute each block of code individually and tell what every line is doing. Either, look at the notebooks online using the notebook viewer links at the botom of the page or download the notebooks, navigate to the you download directory and run

jupyter notebook

Installation

We encourage you to use easy_install or pip to install DEAP on your system. Other installation procedure like apt-get, yum, etc. usually provide an outdated version.

pip install deap

The latest version can be installed with

pip install git+https://github.com/DEAP/deap@master

If you wish to build from sources, download or clone the repository and type

python setup.py install

Build Status

DEAP build status is available on Travis-CI https://travis-ci.org/DEAP/deap.

Requirements

The most basic features of DEAP requires Python2.6. In order to combine the toolbox and the multiprocessing module Python2.7 is needed for its support to pickle partial functions. CMA-ES requires Numpy, and we recommend matplotlib for visualization of results as it is fully compatible with DEAP's API.

Since version 0.8, DEAP is compatible out of the box with Python 3. The installation procedure automatically translates the source to Python 3 with 2to3, however this requires having setuptools<=58. It is recommended to use pip install setuptools==57.5.0 to address this issue.

Example

The following code gives a quick overview how simple it is to implement the Onemax problem optimization with genetic algorithm using DEAP. More examples are provided here.

import random
from deap import creator, base, tools, algorithms

creator.create("FitnessMax", base.Fitness, weights=(1.0,))
creator.create("Individual", list, fitness=creator.FitnessMax)

toolbox = base.Toolbox()

toolbox.register("attr_bool", random.randint, 0, 1)
toolbox.register("individual", tools.initRepeat, creator.Individual, toolbox.attr_bool, n=100)
toolbox.register("population", tools.initRepeat, list, toolbox.individual)

def evalOneMax(individual):
    return sum(individual),

toolbox.register("evaluate", evalOneMax)
toolbox.register("mate", tools.cxTwoPoint)
toolbox.register("mutate", tools.mutFlipBit, indpb=0.05)
toolbox.register("select", tools.selTournament, tournsize=3)

population = toolbox.population(n=300)

NGEN=40
for gen in range(NGEN):
    offspring = algorithms.varAnd(population, toolbox, cxpb=0.5, mutpb=0.1)
    fits = toolbox.map(toolbox.evaluate, offspring)
    for fit, ind in zip(fits, offspring):
        ind.fitness.values = fit
    population = toolbox.select(offspring, k=len(population))
top10 = tools.selBest(population, k=10)

How to cite DEAP

Authors of scientific papers including results generated using DEAP are encouraged to cite the following paper.

@article{DEAP_JMLR2012, 
    author    = " F\'elix-Antoine Fortin and Fran\c{c}ois-Michel {De Rainville} and Marc-Andr\'e Gardner and Marc Parizeau and Christian Gagn\'e ",
    title     = { {DEAP}: Evolutionary Algorithms Made Easy },
    pages    = { 2171--2175 },
    volume    = { 13 },
    month     = { jul },
    year      = { 2012 },
    journal   = { Journal of Machine Learning Research }
}

Publications on DEAP

Projects using DEAP

If you want your project listed here, send us a link and a brief description and we'll be glad to add it.