How to determine population size in GA?

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Mac Rodge
Mac Rodge on 1 Dec 2015
Answered: elin elin on 31 Aug 2018
I have 5 objective functions and 5 variables. I am using NSGA II algorithm.
Can anybody tell me hoe to determine the initial size of population in GA?
Regards, Mac
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Alfredo Arias-Montano
Alfredo Arias-Montano on 14 Jun 2016
One rule of thumb for defining the population size for MOPs with up to three objectives, is to use from 2 to 10 times the number of design variables. However in your case, being a MaOP (Many objective optimization problem, i.e. more than 4 objectives), the population size I do recommend to start with is 100, 20 times the number of variables in your problem.

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elin elin
elin elin on 31 Aug 2018
Recently, I am also reading papers on multiple objectives.Has your program been written yet?

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