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Artificial Intelligence Methods
Dr. Rong Qu
Overview of meta-heuristics
Overview
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Local search based approach
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Simulated Annealing
Tabu Search
Variable neighbourhood search, etc
Population based approach
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Genetic algorithms
Evolutionary algorithms
Ant Algorithms, etc
Local Search Based - Simulated
Annealing
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Overall idea
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Accept worse moves by a probability to
escape from local optima
Probability of accepting worse moves
controlled by temperature in a cooling
schedule
Local Search Based - Simulated
Annealing
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Cooling schedule
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Starting temperature
Final temperature
Temperature decrement
Iterations at each temperature
P = exp ^ (-c/t)
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Difference in solution quality
Current system temperature
Local Search Based - Simulated
Annealing
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Search of SA
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Higher chance of accepting worse moves
at the beginning
Lower probability of accepting worse
moves at the end of search
Local Search Based - Tabu Search
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Proposed independently by Glover
(1986) and Hansen (1986)
Overall idea
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to avoid entrapment in cycles by forbidding
or penalizing moves which take the
solution, in the next iteration, to points in
the solution space previously visited (hence
tabu).
Local Search Based - Tabu Search
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Use past experience (memory) in
current decision making
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Recency
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Tabu list (short term memory)
Tabu tenure
Frequency
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Elite solutions (long term memory)
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Intensification
Diversification
Local Search Based - Tabu Search
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Aspiration: accept better moves even
they are tabu-ed
Search of TS
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Prohibit loops in the search
Explore new regions in the search space
Population Based - Evolutionary
Algorithms
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Based on survival of the fittest
A population of candidate solutions
(chromosomes)
Evolve by reproduction operators
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Crossover (different types)
Mutation (different types)
Evaluate each offspring & Selection on
the population
Population Based - Evolutionary
Algorithms
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Schema theorem: theoretical
background
Genetic Algorithms vs. Evolutionary
Strategies
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Crossover and mutation
Population Based - Ant Algorithms
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These algorithms are very new (Dorigo,
1996) and is still very much a research area
Ants are practically blind but they still
manage to find their way to and from food.
How do they do it?
There is a population of ants, with each ant
finding a solution and then communicating
with the other ants
Population Based - Ant Algorithms
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Ant algorithms are population based, in
this sense, similar to Genetic
Algorithms.
The probability of an ant following a
certain route is a function, not only of
the pheromone intensity but also a
function of what the ant can see
(visibility)
G5BAIM
Artificial Intelligence Methods
Dr. Rong Qu
Overview of meta-heuristics