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Panel you have access to 11 built-in fitness
functions. Additionally, you can also design your own fitness function and explore the solution space with it.
You can design your own fitness function using the Custom Fitness Function window to write the code of your fitness function. The code for the custom fitness function must be in JavaScript and can be tested before evolving a model with it.
The 11 built-in fitness functions of APS 3.0 for Function Finding:
The kind of fitness function you choose will depend most probably on the statistical function you are most familiar with. And although there is nothing wrong with this for all of them can accomplish an efficient evolution, you might want to try different fitness functions for they travel the fitness landscape differently: some of them very straightforwardly in their pursuits while others choose less obvious paths.
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