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Learning to Learn Evolutionary Algorithm: A Learnable Differential Evolution

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Xin Liu
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Jianyong Sun *
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Qingfu Zhang (Qingfu Zhang)
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Zhenkun Wang
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Zongben Xu
DOI:10.1109/TETCI.2023.3251441delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Research on evolutionary optimization has flourished for several decades. Now it has come to a turning point. With the advancement of artificial intelligence, especially deep learning and reinforcement learning, it is becoming appealing to rethink the design and development of evolutionary algorithm (EA). From our perspective, a new-generation EA should be learned rather than manually designed, based on learning from optimization experiences (such as obtained from optimizing a family of optimization problems), the deep understanding of the roles of recombination operators, and the usage of experiences extracted through history optimization trajectories, so as to intelligently decide the control parameters that can adapt to the problem landscape changes. This learning can be conducted by strongly coupling with reinforcement learning since an evolutionary search procedure can be modeled as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). In this paper we propose a framework for automatic learning of EA, and present an exemplar study on learning a differential evolution (DE). Experimental results show that the learned adaptive DE is very competitive to some recent EAs on a commonly-used test suite, which indicates that the proposed learning framework has a great potential for the automatic design of promising EAs.
Keywords:
Optimization
Statistics
Sociology
Neural networks
Trajectory
Search problems
Urban areas
Learning to learn evolutionary algorithm
differential evolution
mutation strategy
parameter control
deep reinforcement learning

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IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
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6.5
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1.4K
Citations:
4.5K

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xi'an jiaotong university
Scholars:
9.3W
Papers: 6.7W
Citations: 75
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City University of Hong Kong
Scholars:
2.3W
Papers: 3.0W
Citations: 6.1W
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