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		Genetic Algorithms in Regression // Provides a genetic algorithm
		framework for regression problems requiring discrete
		optimization over model spaces with unknown or varying
		dimension, where gradient-based methods and exhaustive
		enumeration are impractical. Uses a compact chromosome
		representation for tasks including spline knot placement and
		best-subset variable selection, with constraint-preserving
		crossover and mutation, exact uniform initialization under
		spacing constraints, steady-state replacement, and optional
		island-model parallelization from Lu, Lund, and Lee (2010,
		doi:10.1214/09-AOAS289). The computation is built on the 'GA'
		engine of Scrucca (2017, doi:10.32614/RJ-2017-008) and
		'changepointGA' engine from Li and Lu (2024,
		doi:10.48550/arXiv.2410.15571). In challenging high-dimensional
		settings, 'GAReg' enables efficient search and delivers near-
		optimal solutions when alternative algorithms are not well-
		justified.
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