A Surrogate-Assisted Cooperative Co-evolutionary Algorithm for Solving High Dimensional, Expensive and Black Box Optimization Problems

Julien Blanchard, Charlotte Beauthier, Timoteo Carletti

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Abstract

Many research efforts have been recently focus to solve large-scale global optimization (LSGO) problems by means of evolutionaryalgorithms. Cooperative co-evolution has been proposed to solve suchproblems depending on thousands of variables. This methodology hasproved very efficient in solving a wide range of LSGO problems. Never-theless, it often requires an extremely large number of function evalua-tions to reach a suitable solution. This is somewhat problematic whenthe function evaluation is computationally expensive. A globally effectiveapproach to high-fidelity optimization problems based on such expensiveanalyses lies in the exploitation of surrogate models. They act as cheap-to-evaluate alternatives to the original high-fidelity models reducing thecomputational cost, while still providing improved designs. This kind ofoptimization process, referred to as surrogate-assisted optimization, hasproved very efficient on small-dimensional problems but suffers from thecurse of dimensionality to solve LSGO problems. In this paper, coop-erative co-evolution was combined with surrogate-assisted optimizationin order to efficiently solve high dimensional, expensive and black-boxproblems. Experimental results are provided on a wide set of benchmarkproblems and show promising results for the proposed algorithm.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)41-52
Number of pages12
JournalEngOpt 2018 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Engineering Optimization
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Sept 2018
EventEngOpt2018: 6th International Conference on Engineering Optimization - Instituto Superior Tecnico, Libsonne, Portugal
Duration: 17 Sept 201819 Feb 2019
http://engopt2018.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/

Keywords

  • global optimization
  • Surrogate-assisted optimization
  • large-scale optimization
  • high dimensional
  • Expensive and black-box functions
  • Cooperative co-evolutionary algorithm
  • Random grouping
  • genetic algorithm
  • Evolutionary algorithm

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