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The API of DEAP is built around a clean and lean core composed of two simple
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structures: a :mod:`~deap.creator` and :class:`~deap.base.Toolbox`. The former
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allows creation of classes, at run-time, via inheritance and composition and
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The core functionalities of DEAP are levered by several peripheral modules.
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The :mod:`~deap.tools` module provides a bunch of operator that are commonly
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used in evolutionary computation such as initialization, mutation, crossover
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and selection functions. It also contains all sort of tools to gather
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information about the evolution such as statistics on almost every thing,
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genealogy of the produced individuals, hall-of-fame of the best individuals
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seen, and checkpoints allowing to restart an evolution from its last state.
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The :mod:`~deap.algorithms` module contains five of the most frequently used
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algorithms in EC: generational, steady-state, :math:`(\mu\ ,\ \lambda)`,
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:math:`(\mu+\lambda)`, and CMA-ES. These are readily usable for the most
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common population layouts. Specific genetic programming tools are provided in
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the :mod:`~deap.gp` module. A complete and efficient (and stand alone)
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parallelization module, base on MPI, providing some very useful parallel
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method is provided in the :mod:`~deap.dtm` module. Finally, common benchmark
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functions are readily implemented in the :mod:`~deap.benchmarks`.
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