Installation

Requirements c++17.

After cloning the repository and entering its folder, run one of the following commands:

# For CPU installation (default)
pip install .

# For GPU installation (requires CUDA 12 or newer and nvidia-smi to be available)
BUILD_GPU=1 pip install .

The setup.py has an option to compile a version that runs on GPU, check the script to set it up. A CUDA 12 or above compiler is needed.

Running an example

Download the example data set from here.

Run the following code, updating the path to the location of the downloaded set:

import SimulatorCPU as simulator
n=300
s = simulator.Runner("data/sorted/training")
s.run(["testing_output_write(get9())"]*n)

Citation

If you use this software, cite as follow:

@article{yepes2025evolutionary,
  title={Evolutionary thoughts: integration of large language models and evolutionary algorithms},
  author={Jimeno Yepes, Antonio and Barnard, Pieter},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05756},
  year={2025}
}