Comment by 0xdeadbeefbabe

3 days ago

The part about pruning and selecting sounds similar to genetic algorithms from before the popularity of nn.

That's right! The second paragraph on OPTIMIZATION WITH SPLIT-AND-PRUNE in the original paper:

> Inspired by the theory of *evolution and genetic algorithms*, we propose the Split-and-Prune algorithm to address the above issues, as outlined in algorithm 1.