Genetic algorithms are very good solved Sudoku generators

Amit Benbassat

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Abstract

I present a simple and yet effective GA-based approach to content generation in the Sudoku domain. The GA finds multiple full boards which can act as solutions for Sudoku and Killer Sudoku puzzles. In this work I use a binning-based diversity maintenance approach in order to encourage GA to find more solution boards. resluts prove that though both approaches routinely manage to find multiple solution boards it is in fact the simple GA without any diversity maintenance that finds more such boards. Using a simpler approach to manipulate the fitness function to penalize previously found solutions improves the algorithm further.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGECCO 2019 Companion - Proceedings of the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages49-50
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450367486
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Jul 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2019 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 13 Jul 201917 Jul 2019

Publication series

NameGECCO 2019 Companion - Proceedings of the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion

Conference

Conference2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2019
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period13/07/1917/07/19

Keywords

  • Diversity
  • Evolutionary algorithms
  • Puzzles
  • Sudoku

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Software

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