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enable higher res recombination - depends on HPC and/or distributed computing

Open happyjack27 opened this issue 7 years ago • 0 comments

it uses voting tabulation districts because that's the resolution of vote counts. And also, possibly because of that, it struggles when there are a lot of districts (like 100) being optimized at once.

However, the beauty of genetic algorithm (and similiar algorithms) is that they grow both in memory and CPU at O(n). Some way to deal with higher data resolution and/or higher district resolution would be nice. Butt this a) probably is dependent on the high performance computing (HPC) "big thing", and in any case is a difficult/deep problem. One idea I has is a sort of "hierarchical" optimization - maybe progressively increase resolution.

happyjack27 avatar Apr 10 '17 12:04 happyjack27