Learning Adaptive Differential Evolution Algorithm From Optimization Experiences by Policy Gradient

Differential evolution is one of the most prestigious population-based stochastic optimization algorithm for black-box problems. The performance of a differential evolution algorithm depends highly on its mutation and crossover strategy and associated control parameters. However, the determination p...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation Jg. 25; H. 4; S. 666 - 680
Hauptverfasser: Sun, Jianyong, Liu, Xin, Back, Thomas, Xu, Zongben
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York IEEE 01.08.2021
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Schlagworte:
Adaptive algorithms
Adaptive control
Adaptive differential evolution
Algorithms
Convergence
Deep learning
Evolutionary algorithms
Evolutionary computation
global optimization
Machine learning
Markov processes
Mutation
Optimization
policy gradient (PG)
Process control
Process parameters
Reinforcement learning
reinforcement learning (RL)
Sociology
Statistics
ISSN:1089-778X, 1941-0026
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Zusammenfassung:Differential evolution is one of the most prestigious population-based stochastic optimization algorithm for black-box problems. The performance of a differential evolution algorithm depends highly on its mutation and crossover strategy and associated control parameters. However, the determination process for the most suitable parameter setting is troublesome and time consuming. Adaptive control parameter methods that can adapt to problem landscape and optimization environment are more preferable than fixed parameter settings. This article proposes a novel adaptive parameter control approach based on learning from the optimization experiences over a set of problems. In the approach, the parameter control is modeled as a finite-horizon Markov decision process. A reinforcement learning algorithm, named policy gradient, is applied to learn an agent (i.e., parameter controller) that can provide the control parameters of a proposed differential evolution adaptively during the search procedure. The differential evolution algorithm based on the learned agent is compared against nine well-known evolutionary algorithms on the CEC'13 and CEC'17 test suites. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs competitively against these compared algorithms on the test suites.
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ISSN:1089-778X
1941-0026
DOI:10.1109/TEVC.2021.3060811