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FAST AND ROBUST CONSENSUS-BASED OPTIMIZATION VIA OPTIMAL FEEDBACK CONTROL

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Yuyang Huang *
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Michaël Herty
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Dante Kalise
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Nikolas Kantas
DOI:10.1137/24M170644Xdelete
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Abstract

Abstract

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CBO, which introduces a feedback control term to improve convergence towards global minimizers of nonconvex functions in multiple dimensions. The feedback law is a gradient of a numerical approximation to the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation, which serves as a proxy of the original objective function. Thus, the associated control signal furnishes gradient-like information to facilitate the identification of the global minimum without requiring derivative computation from the objective function itself. The proposed method exhibits significantly improved performance over standard CBO methods in numerical experiments, particularly in scenarios involving a limited number of particles, or where the initial particle ensemble is not well positioned with respect to the global minimum. At the same time, the modification keeps the algorithm amenable to theoretical analysis in the mean-field sense. The superior convergence rates are assessed experimentally.
Keywords:
global optimization
consensus-based optimization
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDEs
high-dimensional polynomial approximation

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SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing cover
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
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imperial college london
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rwth aachen university
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