Number of Population and Generation in GA?

I have a function where I'm trying to optimize. So, Im using GA and I have run the optimizer on the defult case. Is there anyway to figour out the number of population and generation?

I have 16 variables and a single objective. I see the generations defult uses 100 * number of variables. So, what about the population? Is the population number fixed in each generation?

Answer 1

[Alan Weiss]

it is difficult for me to understand what you are asking, but here is some information that might help you:

• You can see option values by reading the options table or entering optimoptions('ga')
• There is more information on the options in the option description section
• The algorithm description is here.

Good luck,

Alan Weiss

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[Yaser Khojah]

Thanks Alan for your help.

Can you please look at this quesion?

https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/464399-how-to-pass-an-additional-variable-that-is-not-part-of-the-objective-for-each-population-while-using