Deb & Agrawal's standard real-valued crossover for NSGA-II. Takes two
parents, returns two children; per dimension, with
`per_variable_probability`, mixes the parents using a polynomial
spread parameter \\(\\beta\\) drawn from a distribution controlled by
`eta` (the distribution index — typical values 10–30, default 15).
Children are clamped to per-variable bounds.
Per-dim formula (Deb & Agrawal 1995):
- `u ~ U[0, 1)`
- `β = (2u)^(1/(η+1))` if `u ≤ 0.5` else `(1 / (2(1-u)))^(1/(η+1))`
- `c1 = 0.5·((1+β)·p1 + (1-β)·p2)`, `c2 = 0.5·((1-β)·p1 + (1+β)·p2)`
This is the simple compute-then-clamp form; the bounds-aware
β formulation from the full paper is left as a future refinement.
Tests cover: two children for two parents, output lengths preserved,
all variables clamped to bounds, and per_variable_probability=0
returns the parents unchanged.
A bounded variant of GaussianMutation: same Gaussian noise applied to
the first parent, but every variable is clamped to its per-dimension
inclusive bound. Useful as a drop-in for problems that need feasibility
maintained across generations rather than relying on
clamp-inside-evaluate.
Panics on `sigma <= 0.0`, on no parents, and on construction if any
`(lo, hi)` has `lo > hi`. Decision length must match the bounds
length when called.
`RealBounds` (Initializer<Vec<f64>>) samples each variable uniformly in
its inclusive (lo, hi) range; panics if any bound has lo > hi
(spec §11.1).
`GaussianMutation` (Variation<Vec<f64>>) clones the first parent and
adds Normal(0, sigma) noise to every element; panics on sigma <= 0.0;
does not enforce bounds in v1 (spec §11.2).