Encog machine learning framework

Encog is an advanced ML framework that supports a variety of algorithms including Neural Networks and Genetic algorithms. It supports Java and .NET APIs along with a workbench that has an easy to use user interface for running various tests and experiments with the datasets. The training algorithm implementations are multi-threaded and support multi-core hardware. In this section, we are going to see general use of the Encog framework and specifically its support for genetic programming (GP) to implement genetic algorithms (GAs). 

Encog development environment setup

The core libraries for the Encog framework can be acquired from the Git repository and built as a Maven project within your development environment as follows: 

https://github.com/encog/encog-java-core
mvn package

Encog API structure

The core API is a simple object-oriented paradigm with three core functional blocks:

• Machine learning methods: Each model type in Encog is represented as a machine learning...