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Multi-objectivising Combinatorial Optimisation Problems by means of Elementary Landscape Decompositions
Evolutionary Computation ( IF 4.6 ) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 , DOI: 10.1162/evco_a_00219
Josu Ceberio 1 , Borja Calvo 1 , Alexander Mendiburu 2 , Jose A Lozano 3
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In the last decade, many works in combinatorial optimisation have shown that, due to the advances in multi-objective optimisation, the algorithms from this field could be used for solving single-objective problems as well. In this sense, a number of papers have proposed multi-objectivising single-objective problems in order to use multi-objective algorithms in their optimisation. In this article, we follow up this idea by presenting a methodology for multi-objectivising combinatorial optimisation problems based on elementary landscape decompositions of their objective function. Under this framework, each of the elementary landscapes obtained from the decomposition is considered as an independent objective function to optimise. In order to illustrate this general methodology, we consider four problems from different domains: the quadratic assignment problem and the linear ordering problem (permutation domain), the 0-1 unconstrained quadratic optimisation problem (binary domain), and the frequency assignment problem (integer domain). We implemented two widely known multi-objective algorithms, NSGA-II and SPEA2, and compared their performance with that of a single-objective GA. The experiments conducted on a large benchmark of instances of the four problems show that the multi-objective algorithms clearly outperform the single-objective approaches. Furthermore, a discussion on the results suggests that the multi-objective space generated by this decomposition enhances the exploration ability, thus permitting NSGA-II and SPEA2 to obtain better results in the majority of the tested instances.

中文翻译:

通过基本景观分解的多目标组合优化问题

在过去十年中,组合优化方面的许多工作表明,由于多目标优化的进步,该领域的算法也可以用于解决单目标问题。从这个意义上说,许多论文提出了多目标化单目标问题,以便在它们的优化中使用多目标算法。在本文中,我们通过提出一种基于其目标函数的基本景观分解的多目标组合优化问题的方法来跟进这一想法。在这个框架下,分解得到的每一个基本景观都被认为是一个独立的优化目标函数。为了说明这种通用方法,我们考虑了来自不同领域的四个问题:二次分配问题和线性排序问题(置换域)、0-1 无约束二次优化问题(二进制域)和频率分配问题(整数域)。我们实现了两种广为人知的多目标算法 NSGA-II 和 SPEA2,并将它们的性能与单目标 GA 的性能进行了比较。在四个问题实例的大型基准上进行的实验表明,多目标算法明显优于单目标方法。此外,对结果的讨论表明,这种分解产生的多目标空间增强了探索能力,从而允许 NSGA-II 和 SPEA2 在大多数测试实例中获得更好的结果。0-1 无约束二次优化问题(二进制域)和频率分配问题(整数域)。我们实现了两种广为人知的多目标算法 NSGA-II 和 SPEA2,并将它们的性能与单目标 GA 的性能进行了比较。在四个问题实例的大型基准上进行的实验表明,多目标算法明显优于单目标方法。此外,对结果的讨论表明,这种分解产生的多目标空间增强了探索能力,从而允许 NSGA-II 和 SPEA2 在大多数测试实例中获得更好的结果。0-1 无约束二次优化问题(二进制域)和频率分配问题(整数域)。我们实现了两种广为人知的多目标算法 NSGA-II 和 SPEA2,并将它们的性能与单目标 GA 的性能进行了比较。在四个问题实例的大型基准上进行的实验表明,多目标算法明显优于单目标方法。此外,对结果的讨论表明,这种分解产生的多目标空间增强了探索能力,从而允许 NSGA-II 和 SPEA2 在大多数测试实例中获得更好的结果。NSGA-II 和 SPEA2,并将它们的性能与单目标 GA 的性能进行了比较。在四个问题实例的大型基准上进行的实验表明,多目标算法明显优于单目标方法。此外,对结果的讨论表明,这种分解产生的多目标空间增强了探索能力,从而允许 NSGA-II 和 SPEA2 在大多数测试实例中获得更好的结果。NSGA-II 和 SPEA2,并将它们的性能与单目标 GA 的性能进行了比较。在四个问题实例的大型基准上进行的实验表明,多目标算法明显优于单目标方法。此外,对结果的讨论表明,这种分解产生的多目标空间增强了探索能力,从而允许 NSGA-II 和 SPEA2 在大多数测试实例中获得更好的结果。
更新日期:2019-06-01
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