A tensor analysis improved genetic algorithm for online bin packing

Mutation in a Genetic Algorithm is the key variation operator adjusting the genetic diversity in a population throughout the evolutionary process. Often, a fixed mutation probability is used to perturb the value of a gene. In this study, we describe a novel data science approach to adaptively genera...

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Main Authors: Asta, Shahriar, Özcan, Ender
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Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33940/
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Özcan, Ender
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description Mutation in a Genetic Algorithm is the key variation operator adjusting the genetic diversity in a population throughout the evolutionary process. Often, a fixed mutation probability is used to perturb the value of a gene. In this study, we describe a novel data science approach to adaptively generate the mutation probability for each locus. The trail of high quality candidate solutions obtained during the search process is represented as a 3rd order tensor. Factorizing that tensor captures the common pattern between those solutions, identifying the degree of mutation which is likely to yield improvement at each locus. An online bin packing problem is used as an initial case study to investigate the proposed approach for generating locus dependent mutation probabilities. The empirical results show that the tensor approach improves the performance of a standard Genetic Algorithm on almost all classes of instances, significantly.
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spelling nottingham-339402020-05-04T17:13:21Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33940/ A tensor analysis improved genetic algorithm for online bin packing Asta, Shahriar Özcan, Ender Mutation in a Genetic Algorithm is the key variation operator adjusting the genetic diversity in a population throughout the evolutionary process. Often, a fixed mutation probability is used to perturb the value of a gene. In this study, we describe a novel data science approach to adaptively generate the mutation probability for each locus. The trail of high quality candidate solutions obtained during the search process is represented as a 3rd order tensor. Factorizing that tensor captures the common pattern between those solutions, identifying the degree of mutation which is likely to yield improvement at each locus. An online bin packing problem is used as an initial case study to investigate the proposed approach for generating locus dependent mutation probabilities. The empirical results show that the tensor approach improves the performance of a standard Genetic Algorithm on almost all classes of instances, significantly. 2015-07-11 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Asta, Shahriar and Özcan, Ender (2015) A tensor analysis improved genetic algorithm for online bin packing. In: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (2015), 11-15 July 2015, Madrid, Spain. Genetic Algorithm Bin Packing Problem Tensor Genetic Diversity Fixation (Popular Genetics) Natural Selection Locus (Genetics) Mutation http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2739480.2754787 10.1145/2739480.2754787 10.1145/2739480.2754787 10.1145/2739480.2754787
spellingShingle Genetic Algorithm
Bin Packing Problem
Tensor
Genetic Diversity
Fixation (Popular Genetics)
Natural Selection
Locus (Genetics)
Mutation
Asta, Shahriar
Özcan, Ender
A tensor analysis improved genetic algorithm for online bin packing
title A tensor analysis improved genetic algorithm for online bin packing
title_full A tensor analysis improved genetic algorithm for online bin packing
title_fullStr A tensor analysis improved genetic algorithm for online bin packing
title_full_unstemmed A tensor analysis improved genetic algorithm for online bin packing
title_short A tensor analysis improved genetic algorithm for online bin packing
title_sort tensor analysis improved genetic algorithm for online bin packing
topic Genetic Algorithm
Bin Packing Problem
Tensor
Genetic Diversity
Fixation (Popular Genetics)
Natural Selection
Locus (Genetics)
Mutation
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33940/
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