Creator:
Schaefer, Robert ; Byrski, Aleksander ; Smołka, Maciej
Contributor:
Cordón, Oskar - ed. ; Kazienko, Przemysław - ed.
Title:
The island model as a Markov dynamic system
Subtitle:
Hybrid and Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning
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Subject and Keywords:
genetic algorithms ; asymptotic analysis ; global optimization ; parallel evolutionary algorithms ; Markov chain modeling
Abstract:
Parallel multi-deme genetic algorithms are especially advantageous because they allow reducing the time of computations and can perform a much broader search than single-population ones. However, their formal analysis does not seem to have been studied exhaustively enough. In this paper we propose a mathematical framework describing a wide class of island-like strategies as a stationary Markov chain. ; Our approach uses extensively the modeling principles introduced by Vose, Rudolph and their collaborators. An original and crucial feature of the framework we propose is the mechanism of inter-deme agent operation synchronization. It is important from both a practical and a theoretical point of view. ; We show that under a mild assumption the resulting Markov chain is ergodic and the sequence of the related sampling measures converges to some invariant measure. The asymptotic guarantee of success is also obtained as a simple issue of ergodicity. Moreover, if the cardinality of each island population grows to infinity, then the sequence of the limit invariant measures contains a weakly convergent subsequence. ; The formal description of the island model obtained for the case of solving a single-objective problem can also be extended to the multi-objective case.
Publisher:
Zielona Góra: Uniwersytet Zielonogórski
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Source:
AMCS, Volume 22, Number 4 (2012) ; click here to follow the link