I’ve never seen genetic algorithms considered to be a subcategory of reinforcement learning before. > Genetic algorithms are considered as part of reinforcement learning Uh, by who? Sure, there are similarities, but GAs != RL.
I do not think the divisions so sharp. Many formulations in RL can be seen as implicitly defining a particular (set of) differential equations. One can do something similar for certain simple GAs and write them as equations of an evolutionary game where stable strategies are good solutions to the objective. The RL diff eqs also fall in this class. Another view point is to note that John Holland, inventor of GAs, was…
Yeah, I agree and see where they're coming from, just wasn't sure if both RLs and GAs had been generalized into the same framework. Generalized to diff eqs is interesting.