Adaptive population models for offspring populations and parallel evolutionary algorithms
Adaptive population models for offspring populations and parallel evolutionary algorithms
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后代种群的自适应种群模型和并行进化算法
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2011
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通讯作者:
Dirk Sudholt
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Jörg Lässig;Dirk Sudholt
We present two adaptive schemes for dynamically choosing the number of parallel instances in parallel evolutionary algorithms. This includes the choice of the offspring population size in a (1+λ) EA as a special case. Our schemes are parameterless and they work in a black-box setting where no knowledge on the problem is available. Both schemes double the number of instances in case a generation ends without finding an improvement. In a successful generation, the first scheme resets the system to one instance, while the second scheme halves the number of instances. Both schemes provide near-optimal speed-ups in terms of the parallel time. We give upper bounds for the asymptotic sequential time (i.e., the total number of function evaluations) that are not larger than upper bounds for a corresponding non-parallel algorithm derived by the fitness-level method.