TY - GEN
T1 - Multi-swarm Genetic Gray Wolf Optimizer with Embedded Autoencoders for High-dimensional Expensive Problems
AU - Bi, Jing
AU - Zhai, Jiahui
AU - Yuan, Haitao
AU - Wang, Ziqi
AU - Qiao, Junfei
AU - Zhang, Jia
AU - Zhou, Meng Chu
N1 - Funding Information:
*This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grants 62173013 and 62073005, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant YWF-22-L-1203.
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - High-dimensional expensive problems are often encountered in the design and optimization of complex robotic and automated systems and distributed computing systems, and they suffer from a time-consuming fitness evaluation process. It is extremely challenging and difficult to produce promising solutions in a high-dimensional search space. This work proposes an evolutionary optimization framework with embedded autoencoders that effectively solve optimization problems with high-dimensional search space. Autoencoders provide strong dimension reduction and feature extraction abilities that compress a high-dimensional space to an informative low-dimensional one. Search operations are performed in a low-dimensional space, thereby guiding whole population to converge to the optimal solution more efficiently. Multiple subpopulations coevolve iteratively in a distributed manner. One subpopulation is embedded by an autoencoder, and the other one is guided by a newly proposed Multi-swarm Gray-wolf-optimizer based on Genetic-learning (MGG). Thus, the proposed multi-swarm framework is named Autoencoder-based MGG (AMGG). AMGG consists of three proposed strategies that balance exploration and exploitation abilities, i.e., a dynamic subgroup number strategy for reducing the number of subpopulations, a subpopulation reorganization strategy for sharing useful information about each subpopulation, and a purposeful detection strategy for escaping from local optima and improving exploration ability. AMGG is compared with several widely used algorithms by solving benchmark problems and a real-life optimization one. The results well verify that AMGG outperforms its peers in terms of search accuracy and convergence efficiency.
AB - High-dimensional expensive problems are often encountered in the design and optimization of complex robotic and automated systems and distributed computing systems, and they suffer from a time-consuming fitness evaluation process. It is extremely challenging and difficult to produce promising solutions in a high-dimensional search space. This work proposes an evolutionary optimization framework with embedded autoencoders that effectively solve optimization problems with high-dimensional search space. Autoencoders provide strong dimension reduction and feature extraction abilities that compress a high-dimensional space to an informative low-dimensional one. Search operations are performed in a low-dimensional space, thereby guiding whole population to converge to the optimal solution more efficiently. Multiple subpopulations coevolve iteratively in a distributed manner. One subpopulation is embedded by an autoencoder, and the other one is guided by a newly proposed Multi-swarm Gray-wolf-optimizer based on Genetic-learning (MGG). Thus, the proposed multi-swarm framework is named Autoencoder-based MGG (AMGG). AMGG consists of three proposed strategies that balance exploration and exploitation abilities, i.e., a dynamic subgroup number strategy for reducing the number of subpopulations, a subpopulation reorganization strategy for sharing useful information about each subpopulation, and a purposeful detection strategy for escaping from local optima and improving exploration ability. AMGG is compared with several widely used algorithms by solving benchmark problems and a real-life optimization one. The results well verify that AMGG outperforms its peers in terms of search accuracy and convergence efficiency.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161299
DO - 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161299
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85168673001
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 7265
EP - 7271
BT - Proceedings - ICRA 2023
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2023
Y2 - 29 May 2023 through 2 June 2023
ER -