Ant colony optimization beats resampling on noisy functions

Tobias Friedrich; Timo Kötzing; Francesco Quinzan; Andrew M. Sutton

doi:10.1145/2908961.2909039

Ant colony optimization beats resampling on noisy functions

Tobias Friedrich, Timo Kötzing, Francesco Quinzan, Andrew M. Sutton

Computer Science (Duluth)

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Abstract

Despite the pervasiveness of noise in real-world optimization, there is little understanding of the interplay between the operators of randomized search heuristics and explicit noise-handling techniques such as statistical resampling. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithms are claimed to be particularly well-suited to dynamic and noisy problems, even without explicit noise-handling techniques. In this work, we empirically investigate the trade-offs between resampling an the noise-handling abilities of ACO algorithms. Our main focus is to locate the point where resampling costs more than it is worth.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	GECCO 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Editors	Tobias Friedrich
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	3-4
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450343237
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2908961.2909039
State	Published - Jul 20 2016
Event	2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2016 Companion - Denver, United States Duration: Jul 20 2016 → Jul 24 2016

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Name	GECCO 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

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Other	2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2016 Companion
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	7/20/16 → 7/24/16

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Keywords

Ant Colony Optimization
Crossover
Estimation of Distribution Algorithm
Evolutionary Algorithm
Genetic Algorithm
Noise
Robustness

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Friedrich, T., Kötzing, T., Quinzan, F., & Sutton, A. M. (2016). Ant colony optimization beats resampling on noisy functions. In T. Friedrich (Ed.), GECCO 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 3-4). (GECCO 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2908961.2909039

Ant colony optimization beats resampling on noisy functions. / Friedrich, Tobias; Kötzing, Timo; Quinzan, Francesco et al.
GECCO 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. ed. / Tobias Friedrich. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. p. 3-4 (GECCO 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference).

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Friedrich, T, Kötzing, T, Quinzan, F & Sutton, AM 2016, Ant colony optimization beats resampling on noisy functions. in T Friedrich (ed.), GECCO 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. GECCO 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 3-4, 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2016 Companion, Denver, United States, 7/20/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2908961.2909039

Friedrich T, Kötzing T, Quinzan F, Sutton AM. Ant colony optimization beats resampling on noisy functions. In Friedrich T, editor, GECCO 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2016. p. 3-4. (GECCO 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference). doi: 10.1145/2908961.2909039

Friedrich, Tobias ; Kötzing, Timo ; Quinzan, Francesco et al. / Ant colony optimization beats resampling on noisy functions. GECCO 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. editor / Tobias Friedrich. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. pp. 3-4 (GECCO 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference).

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