Multi-layer local optima networks for the analysis of advanced local search-based algorithms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13936v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 03:20:01 GMT
• Title: Multi-layer local optima networks for the analysis of advanced local search-based algorithms
• Authors: Marcella Scoczynski Ribeiro Martins, Mohamed El Yafrani, Myriam R. B. S. Delgado, and Ricardo Luders
• Abstract summary: Local Optima Network (LON) is a graph model that compresses the fitness landscape of a particular optimization problem based on a specific neighborhood operator and a local search algorithm. This paper proposes the concept of multi-layer LONs as well as a methodology to explore these models aiming at extracting metrics for fitness landscape analysis.
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• Abstract: A Local Optima Network (LON) is a graph model that compresses the fitness landscape of a particular combinatorial optimization problem based on a specific neighborhood operator and a local search algorithm. Determining which and how landscape features affect the effectiveness of search algorithms is relevant for both predicting their performance and improving the design process. This paper proposes the concept of multi-layer LONs as well as a methodology to explore these models aiming at extracting metrics for fitness landscape analysis. Constructing such models, extracting and analyzing their metrics are the preliminary steps into the direction of extending the study on single neighborhood operator heuristics to more sophisticated ones that use multiple operators. Therefore, in the present paper we investigate a twolayer LON obtained from instances of a combinatorial problem using bitflip and swap operators. First, we enumerate instances of NK-landscape model and use the hill climbing heuristic to build the corresponding LONs. Then, using LON metrics, we analyze how efficiently the search might be when combining both strategies. The experiments show promising results and demonstrate the ability of multi-layer LONs to provide useful information that could be used for in metaheuristics based on multiple operators such as Variable Neighborhood Search.

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