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<div id="content"><h1>Class: NEAT::Evaluator

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<h1 id=“label-Evaluator+evaluates+phenotype+of+critter+for+fitness%2C+novelty%2C+etc.”>Evaluator evaluates phenotype of critter for fitness, novelty, etc.</h1>

<p>We can have a chain of these evaluators whose outputs are summed, etc.</p>

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    <a href="#analyze_for_fitness%21-instance_method" title="#analyze_for_fitness! (instance method)">- (Object) <strong>analyze_for_fitness!</strong>(critter) </a>

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<p>Analyze the evaluation and compute a fitness for the given critter.</p> </div></span>

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    <a href="#evaluate%21-instance_method" title="#evaluate! (instance method)">- (Object) <strong>evaluate!</strong>(critter) </a>

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<p>Evaluate one step of a sequence of evaluations.</p> </div></span>

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    <a href="#ready_for_evaluation-instance_method" title="#ready_for_evaluation (instance method)">- (Object) <strong>ready_for_evaluation</strong>(pop) </a>

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<p>This is call prior to any sequence evaluation.</p> </div></span>

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  - (<tt>Object</tt>) <strong>analyze_for_fitness!</strong>(critter)

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<p>Analyze the evaluation and compute a fitness for the given critter. Note that if cost_func is set, we call that to integrate the cost to the fitness average fitness calculated for the fitness vector.</p>

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  <pre class="code"><span class="info file"># File 'lib/rubyneat/evaluator.rb', line 40</span>

<span class='kw'>def</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_analyze_for_fitness!'>analyze_for_fitness!</span><span class='lparen'>(</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='rparen'>)</span>

<span class='id identifier rubyid_fitvec'>fitvec</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='ivar'>@crit_hist</span><span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_map'>map</span><span class='lbrace'>{</span><span class='op'>|</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_seq'>seq</span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_vio'>vio</span><span class='op'>|</span> <span class='ivar'>@controller</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_fitness_func'>fitness_func</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='lparen'>(</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_vio'>vio</span><span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='int'>0</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_vio'>vio</span><span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='int'>1</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_seq'>seq</span><span class='rparen'>)</span> <span class='rbrace'>}</span>
<span class='comment'># Average the fitness vector to get a scalar fitness.

</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_fitness'>fitness</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='kw'>unless</span> <span class='ivar'>@controller</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_cost_func'>cost_func</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_nil?'>nil?</span>

                    <span class='ivar'>@controller</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_cost_func'>cost_func</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='lparen'>(</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_fitvec'>fitvec</span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_genotype'>genotype</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_fitness_cost'>fitness_cost</span><span class='rparen'>)</span>
                  <span class='kw'>else</span>
                    <span class='id identifier rubyid_fitvec'>fitvec</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_reduce'>reduce</span> <span class='lbrace'>{</span><span class='op'>|</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_a'>a</span><span class='comma'>,</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_r'>r</span><span class='op'>|</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_a'>a</span><span class='op'>+</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_r'>r</span><span class='rbrace'>}</span> <span class='op'>/</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_fitvec'>fitvec</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_size'>size</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_to_f'>to_f</span> <span class='op'>+</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_genotype'>genotype</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_fitness_cost'>fitness_cost</span>
                  <span class='kw'>end</span>
<span class='id identifier rubyid_log'>log</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_debug'>debug</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>Fitness Vector: </span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_fitvec'>fitvec</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'>, fitness of </span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_fitness'>fitness</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'> assigned to </span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>

<span class='kw'>end</span></pre>

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  - (<tt>Object</tt>) <strong>evaluate!</strong>(critter)

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<p>Evaluate one step of a sequence of evaluations. For time series and realtime ongoing evaluations, everything is.</p>

<p>Returns [vin, vout], where vin is the input vector, and vout in the output vector from the critter. FIXME: this should not really have to deal with an error. FIXME: the error should be handled upstream from here.</p>

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  <pre class="code"><span class="info file"># File 'lib/rubyneat/evaluator.rb', line 24</span>

<span class='kw'>def</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_evaluate!'>evaluate!</span><span class='lparen'>(</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='rparen'>)</span>

<span class='id identifier rubyid_vin'>vin</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='ivar'>@controller</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_query_func'>query_func</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='lparen'>(</span><span class='ivar'>@controller</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_seq_num'>seq_num</span><span class='rparen'>)</span>
<span class='ivar'>@crit_hist</span><span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='lbrace'>{</span><span class='rbrace'>}</span> <span class='kw'>unless</span> <span class='ivar'>@crit_hist</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_member?'>member?</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span>
<span class='kw'>begin</span>
  <span class='id identifier rubyid_vout'>vout</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_phenotype'>phenotype</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_stimulate'>stimulate</span> <span class='op'>*</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_vin'>vin</span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='op'>&amp;</span><span class='ivar'>@controller</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_recurrence_func'>recurrence_func</span>
  <span class='id identifier rubyid_log'>log</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_debug'>debug</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>Critter </span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_name'>name</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'>: vin=</span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_vin'>vin</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'>. vout=</span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_vout'>vout</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
  <span class='ivar'>@crit_hist</span><span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span><span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='ivar'>@controller</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_seq_num'>seq_num</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_vin'>vin</span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_vout'>vout</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span>
<span class='kw'>rescue</span> <span class='const'>Exception</span> <span class='op'>=&gt;</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_e'>e</span>
  <span class='id identifier rubyid_log'>log</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_error'>error</span> <span class='tstring'><span class='tstring_beg'>&quot;</span><span class='tstring_content'>Exception </span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_e'>e</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_content'> on code:\n</span><span class='embexpr_beg'>#{</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_phenotype'>phenotype</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_code'>code</span><span class='embexpr_end'>}</span><span class='tstring_end'>&quot;</span></span>
  <span class='ivar'>@crit_hist</span><span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_critter'>critter</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span><span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='ivar'>@controller</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_seq_num'>seq_num</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='lbracket'>[</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_vin'>vin</span><span class='comma'>,</span> <span class='symbol'>:error</span><span class='rbracket'>]</span>
<span class='kw'>end</span>

<span class='kw'>end</span></pre>

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  - (<tt>Object</tt>) <strong>ready_for_evaluation</strong>(pop)

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<p>This is call prior to any sequence evaluation. Here, we clean up persistent tracking information, etc.</p>

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  <pre class="code"><span class="info file"># File 'lib/rubyneat/evaluator.rb', line 10</span>

<span class='kw'>def</span> <span class='id identifier rubyid_ready_for_evaluation'>ready_for_evaluation</span><span class='lparen'>(</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_pop'>pop</span><span class='rparen'>)</span>

<span class='ivar'>@crit_hist</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='lbrace'>{</span><span class='rbrace'>}</span>
<span class='id identifier rubyid_pop'>pop</span><span class='period'>.</span><span class='id identifier rubyid_initialize_for_recurrence!'>initialize_for_recurrence!</span>

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