Genetic algorithms: what connection to support vector machine / naive bayes I found the following list of seven classifiers:


Linear Classifiers: Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes Classifier
Nearest Neighbor 
Support Vector Machines 
Decision Trees 
Boosted Trees 
Random Forest 
Neural Network


What are genetic algorithms, and why aren't they considered as part of the seven classifiers?
A fast search on Google for the term "Genetic Algorithms" will return you this answer:

"A genetic algorithm is a search heuristic that is inspired by Charles Darwin's theory of natural evolution"

So, the term is usually associated with a "search heuristic", for example the search for a local optima.

By that common definition: Genetic Algorithms are not listed among these 7 classifiers since it is not a classifier, it would be in a list of optimization methods like Gradient Descent (and it's variation), Grid Search, Random Search, etc.