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| author | Younis, Omar G. Corinzia, Luca Athanasiadis, Ioannis N. Krause, Andreas Buhmann, Joachim M. Turchetta, Matteo |
| author_facet | Younis, Omar G. Corinzia, Luca Athanasiadis, Ioannis N. Krause, Andreas Buhmann, Joachim M. Turchetta, Matteo |
| contents | Crop breeding is crucial in improving agricultural productivity while potentially decreasing land usage, greenhouse gas emissions, and water consumption. However, breeding programs are challenging due to long turnover times, high-dimensional decision spaces, long-term objectives, and the need to adapt to rapid climate change. This paper introduces the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) to optimize simulated crop breeding programs. RL agents are trained to make optimal crop selection and cross-breeding decisions based on genetic information. To benchmark RL-based breeding algorithms, we introduce a suite of Gym environments. The study demonstrates the superiority of RL techniques over standard practices in terms of genetic gain when simulated in silico using real-world genomic maize data. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | Breeding Programs Optimization with Reinforcement Learning Younis, Omar G. Corinzia, Luca Athanasiadis, Ioannis N. Krause, Andreas Buhmann, Joachim M. Turchetta, Matteo Machine Learning Crop breeding is crucial in improving agricultural productivity while potentially decreasing land usage, greenhouse gas emissions, and water consumption. However, breeding programs are challenging due to long turnover times, high-dimensional decision spaces, long-term objectives, and the need to adapt to rapid climate change. This paper introduces the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) to optimize simulated crop breeding programs. RL agents are trained to make optimal crop selection and cross-breeding decisions based on genetic information. To benchmark RL-based breeding algorithms, we introduce a suite of Gym environments. The study demonstrates the superiority of RL techniques over standard practices in terms of genetic gain when simulated in silico using real-world genomic maize data. |
| title | Breeding Programs Optimization with Reinforcement Learning |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03932 |