D] Genetic Algorithm (GA) vs. Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)

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For functions that have narrow grooves toward the global minima a simple GA implementation can be as efficient as a naive SGD method. Geoffrey Hinton, in one of his videos (Lecture 3.4) mentioned that GA randomly perturbs one weight at a time making it very inefficient compared to backpropagation. Here we present a simple GA implementation which simultaneously mutates all the weights and can learn reasonably efficiently. To implement such network all you need is to follow these simple steps:

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