My genetic algorithm converges to an optimal solution (Global min known beforehand) after a very small number of iterations (4 to 5) is it considered a premature convergence?????
Asolutely Not. Premature convergence is an unwanted situation when your GA due to a lack of diversity is trapped in a local optimum. Your GA has found the global optimum. Is it unwanted to find the global optimum?
Thank you very much for your answers.
this is my first application of genetic algorithms so I had doubts when I obtained the global optimum after a few iterations.
In order to be sure that your code is correct, why not test a few more examples? If you think that the output makes sense, you might have a good software - and otherwise you can try to start at the point at which the code stopped, and start another method there - just to see if you have found a local minimum. As we do not know how you have implemented the method, we have no chance to guess what has gone right, or perhaps gone wrong! :-)
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