GSoC-2024 / Intro (Genetic Optimization Module)
Greetings, I'm Mir Aatif Rafiq, currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology at National Institute of Technology Srinagar. I'm currently in my junior year (3rd). I really found the idea working on the project to create a 'Genetic Optimization Module' very very interesting. I recently worked for a startup as my winter internship . i created a simulator for an FPGA based Neural Network Accelerator and integrated the compiler with it. Ran the VGG 16 model on the simulator which was simulating the hardware architecture( systolic arrays) by parsing the .onnx files which were serialized in protobuf. Here's my Internship report which includes the details of my internship and also the tools i used and learned during my the time period (NNAInternship_Report.pdf.
I'm writing this as to ask some few question about the genetic optimization module. To mention i have some knowledge about 'Genetic Algorithms' and have implemented one for the '0/1 Knapsack problem'. As for the project i need some details about what kind of parameters/inputs the module will take and optimize and what kind of GA libraries exist so i can fiddle around with them. As i have already given a quick read to the already posted issues, i assume to answer some expected questions, i would love to work on the full 300+hr project , but will definitely start from the 175 hr project. I would like to share some projects ive created. i can email you those as some projects are private and an NDA has been signed already but can share it for evaluation purposes. As for the entry test, it was not mentioned for the 'Genetic Optimization Module' but ive still completed the step 1 and was finding the same issue which was resolved in commit a42d5d4a. Looking forward to it.