4,026 research outputs found
Memetic Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Large-Scale Global Optimization
Memetic computation (MC) has emerged recently as a new paradigm of efficient
algorithms for solving the hardest optimization problems. On the other hand,
artificial bees colony (ABC) algorithms demonstrate good performances when
solving continuous and combinatorial optimization problems. This study tries to
use these technologies under the same roof. As a result, a memetic ABC (MABC)
algorithm has been developed that is hybridized with two local search
heuristics: the Nelder-Mead algorithm (NMA) and the random walk with direction
exploitation (RWDE). The former is attended more towards exploration, while the
latter more towards exploitation of the search space. The stochastic adaptation
rule was employed in order to control the balancing between exploration and
exploitation. This MABC algorithm was applied to a Special suite on Large Scale
Continuous Global Optimization at the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation. The obtained results the MABC are comparable with the results of
DECC-G, DECC-G*, and MLCC.Comment: CONFERENCE: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Brisbane,
Australia, 201
A hybrid swarm-based algorithm for single-objective optimization problems involving high-cost analyses
In many technical fields, single-objective optimization procedures in
continuous domains involve expensive numerical simulations. In this context, an
improvement of the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm, called the Artificial
super-Bee enhanced Colony (AsBeC), is presented. AsBeC is designed to provide
fast convergence speed, high solution accuracy and robust performance over a
wide range of problems. It implements enhancements of the ABC structure and
hybridizations with interpolation strategies. The latter are inspired by the
quadratic trust region approach for local investigation and by an efficient
global optimizer for separable problems. Each modification and their combined
effects are studied with appropriate metrics on a numerical benchmark, which is
also used for comparing AsBeC with some effective ABC variants and other
derivative-free algorithms. In addition, the presented algorithm is validated
on two recent benchmarks adopted for competitions in international conferences.
Results show remarkable competitiveness and robustness for AsBeC.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures, Springer Swarm Intelligenc
Metaheuristic design of feedforward neural networks: a review of two decades of research
Over the past two decades, the feedforward neural network (FNN) optimization has been a key interest among the researchers and practitioners of multiple disciplines. The FNN optimization is often viewed from the various perspectives: the optimization of weights, network architecture, activation nodes, learning parameters, learning environment, etc. Researchers adopted such different viewpoints mainly to improve the FNN's generalization ability. The gradient-descent algorithm such as backpropagation has been widely applied to optimize the FNNs. Its success is evident from the FNN's application to numerous real-world problems. However, due to the limitations of the gradient-based optimization methods, the metaheuristic algorithms including the evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, etc., are still being widely explored by the researchers aiming to obtain generalized FNN for a given problem. This article attempts to summarize a broad spectrum of FNN optimization methodologies including conventional and metaheuristic approaches. This article also tries to connect various research directions emerged out of the FNN optimization practices, such as evolving neural network (NN), cooperative coevolution NN, complex-valued NN, deep learning, extreme learning machine, quantum NN, etc. Additionally, it provides interesting research challenges for future research to cope-up with the present information processing era
ORDER BASED EMIGRANT CREATION STRATEGY FOR PARALLEL ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY ALGORITHM
Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm inspired by the foraging behaviors of real honey bees is one of the most important swarm intelligence based optimization algorithms. When considering the robust and phase divided structure of the ABC algorithm, it is clearly seen that ABC algorithm is intrinsically suitable for parallelization. In this paper, we proposed a new emigrant creation strategy for parallel ABC algorithm. The proposed model named order based emigrant creation strategy depends on sending best food source in a subcolony after modifying it with another food source chosen sequentially from the same subcolony at each migration time. Experimental studies on a set of numerical benchmark functions showed that parallel ABC algorithm powered by the newly proposed model significantly improved quality of the final solutions and convergence performance when compared with standard serial ABC algorithm and parallel ABC algorithm for which the best food sources in the subcolonies directly used as emigrants
- …