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Genetic Algorithms - deepakmv - 08-16-2017 [attachment=14849] Genetic Algorithms And other approaches for similar applications Optimization Techniques Mathematical Programming Network Analysis Branch & Bound Genetic Algorithm Simulated Annealing Tabu Search Genetic Algorithm Based on Darwinian Paradigm Intrinsically a robust search and optimization mechanism Conceptual Algorithm Genetic Algorithm Introduction 1 Inspired by natural evolution Population of individuals Individual is feasible solution to problem Each individual is characterized by a Fitness function Higher fitness is better solution Based on their fitness, parents are selected to reproduce offspring for a new generation Fitter individuals have more chance to reproduce New generation has same size as old generation; old generation dies Offspring has combination of properties of two parents If well designed, population will converge to optimal solution Algorithm BEGIN Generate initial population; Compute fitness of each individual; REPEAT /* New generation /* FOR population_size / 2 DO Select two parents from old generation; /* biased to the fitter ones */ Recombine parents for two offspring; Compute fitness of offspring; Insert offspring in new generation END FOR UNTIL population has converged END Example of convergence Introduction 2 Reproduction mechanisms have no knowledge of the problem to be solved Link between genetic algorithm and problem: Coding Fitness function Basic principles 1 Coding or Representation String with all parameters Fitness function Parent selection Reproduction Crossover Mutation Convergence When to stop Basic principles 2 An individual is characterized by a set of parameters: Genes The genes are joined into a string: Chromosome The chromosome forms the genotype The genotype contains all information to construct an organism: the phenotype Reproduction is a dumb process on the chromosome of the genotype Fitness is measured in the real world ( struggle for life ) of the phenotype Coding Parameters of the solution (genes) are concatenated to form a string (chromosome) All kind of alphabets can be used for a chromosome (numbers, characters), but generally a binary alphabet is used Order of genes on chromosome can be important Generally many different codings for the parameters of a solution are possible Good coding is probably the most important factor for the performance of a GA In many cases many possible chromosomes do not code for feasible solutions Genetic Algorithm Encoding Fitness Evaluation Reproduction Survivor Selection Encoding Design alternative individual (chromosome) Single design choice gene Design objectives fitness Example Problem Schedule n jobs on m processors such that the maximum span is minimized. Reproduction Reproduction operators Crossover Mutation Reproduction Crossover Two parents produce two offspring There is a chance that the chromosomes of the two parents are copied unmodified as offspring There is a chance that the chromosomes of the two parents are randomly recombined (crossover) to form offspring Generally the chance of crossover is between 0.6 and 1.0 Mutation There is a chance that a gene of a child is changed randomly Generally the chance of mutation is low (e.g. 0.001) Reproduction Operators Crossover Generating offspring from two selected parents Single point crossover Two point crossover (Multi point crossover) Uniform crossover One-point crossover 1 Randomly one position in the chromosomes is chosen Child 1 is head of chromosome of parent 1 with tail of chromosome of parent 2 Child 2 is head of 2 with tail of 1 Reproduction Operators comparison Single point crossover One-point crossover - Nature Two-point crossover Randomly two positions in the chromosomes are chosen Avoids that genes at the head and genes at the tail of a chromosome are always split when recombined Uniform crossover A random mask is generated The mask determines which bits are copied from one parent and which from the other parent Bit density in mask determines how much material is taken from the other parent (takeover parameter) Reproduction Operators Uniform crossover Problems with crossover Depending on coding, simple crossovers can have high chance to produce illegal offspring E.g. in TSP with simple binary or path coding, most offspring will be illegal because not all cities will be in the offspring and some cities will be there more than once Uniform crossover can often be modified to avoid this problem E.g. in TSP with simple path coding: Where mask is 1, copy cities from one parent Where mask is 0, choose the remaining cities in the order of the other parent Reproduction Operators Mutation Generating new offspring from single parent Maintaining the diversity of the individuals Crossover can only explore the combinations of the current gene pool Mutation can generate new genes Reproduction Operators Control parameters: population size, crossover/mutation probability Problem specific Increase population size Increase diversity and computation time for each generation Increase crossover probability Increase the opportunity for recombination but also disruption of good combination Increase mutation probability Closer to randomly search Help to introduce new gene or reintroduce the lost gene Varies the population Usually using crossover operators to recombine the genes to generate the new population, then using mutation operators on the new population Parent/Survivor Selection Strategies Survivor selection Always keep the best one Elitist: deletion of the K worst Probability selection : inverse to their fitness Etc. Parent/Survivor Selection Too strong fitness selection bias can lead to sub-optimal solution Too little fitness bias selection results in unfocused and meandering search Parent selection Chance to be selected as parent proportional to fitness Roulette wheel To avoid problems with fitness function Tournament Not a very important parameter Parent/Survivor Selection Strategies Parent selection Uniform randomly selection Probability selection : proportional to their fitness Tournament selection (Multiple Objectives) Build a small comparison set Randomly select a pair with the higher rank one beats the lower one Non-dominated one beat the dominated one Niche count: the number of points in the population within certain distance, higher the niche count, lower the rank. Etc. Others Global Optimal Parameter Tuning Parallelism Random number generators Example of coding for TSP Travelling Salesman Problem Binary Cities are binary coded; chromosome is string of bits Most chromosomes code for illegal tour Several chromosomes code for the same tour Path Cities are numbered; chromosome is string of integers Most chromosomes code for illegal tour Several chromosomes code for the same tour Ordinal Cities are numbered, but code is complex All possible chromosomes are legal and only one chromosome for each tour Several others Roulette wheel Sum the fitness of all chromosomes, call it T Generate a random number N between 1 and T Return chromosome whose fitness added to the running total is equal to or larger than N Chance to be selected is exactly proportional to fitness Chromosome : 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fitness: 8 2 17 7 4 11 Running total: 8 10 27 34 38 49 N (1 N 49): 23 Selected: 3 Tournament Binary tournament Two individuals are randomly chosen; the fitter of the two is selected as a parent Probabilistic binary tournament Two individuals are randomly chosen; with a chance p, 0.5<p<1, the fitter of the two is selected as a parent Larger tournaments n individuals are randomly chosen; the fittest one is selected as a parent By changing n and/or p, the GA can be adjusted dynamically Problems with fitness range Premature convergence Fitness too large Relatively superfit individuals dominate population Population converges to a local maximum Too much exploitation; too few exploration Slow finishing Fitness too small No selection pressure After many generations, average fitness has converged, but no global maximum is found; not sufficient difference between best and average fitness Too few exploitation; too much exploration Solutions for these problems Use tournament selection Implicit fitness remapping Adjust fitness function for roulette wheel Explicit fitness remapping Fitness scaling Fitness windowing Fitness ranking Fitness Function Purpose Parent selection Measure for convergence For Steady state: Selection of individuals to die Should reflect the value of the chromosome in some real way Next to coding the most critical part of a GA Fitness scaling Fitness values are scaled by subtraction and division so that worst value is close to 0 and the best value is close to a certain value, typically 2 Chance for the most fit individual is 2 times the average Chance for the least fit individual is close to 0 Problems when the original maximum is very extreme (super-fit) or when the original minimum is very extreme (super-unfit) Can be solved by defining a minimum and/or a maximum value for the fitness Example of Fitness Scaling Fitness windowing Same as window scaling, except the amount subtracted is the minimum observed in the n previous generations, with n e.g. 10 Same problems as with scaling Fitness ranking Individuals are numbered in order of increasing fitness The rank in this order is the adjusted fitness Starting number and increment can be chosen in several ways and influence the results No problems with super-fit or super-unfit Often superior to scaling and windowing Fitness Evaluation A key component in GA Time/quality trade off Multi-criterion fitness Multi-Criterion Fitness Dominance and indifference For an optimization problem with more than one objective function (fi, i=1,2, n) given any two solution X1 and X2, then X1 dominates X2 ( X1 X2), if fi(X1) >= fi(X2), for all i = 1, ,n X1 is indifferent with X2 ( X1 X2), if X1 does not dominate X2, and X2 does not dominate X1 Multi-Criterion Fitness Pareto Optimal Set If there exists no solution in the search space which dominates any member in the set P, then the solutions belonging the the set P constitute a global Pareto-optimal set. Pareto optimal front Dominance Check Multi-Criterion Fitness Weighted sum F(x) = w1f1(x1) + w2f2(x2) + +wnfn(xn) Problems? Convex and convex Pareto optimal front Sensitive to the shape of the Pareto-optimal front Selection of weights? Need some pre-knowledge Not reliable for problem involving uncertainties Multi-Criterion Fitness Optimizing single objective Maximize: fk(X) Subject to: fj(X) <= Ki, i <> k X in F where F is the solution space. Multi-Criterion Fitness Weighted sum F(x) = w1f1(x1) + w2f2(x2) + +wnfn(xn) Problems? Convex and convex Pareto optimal front Sensitive to the shape of the Pareto-optimal front Selection of weights? Need some pre-knowledge Not reliable for problem involving uncertainties Multi-Criterion Fitness Preference based weighted sum (ISMAUT Imprecisely Specific Multiple Attribute Utility Theory) F(x) = w1f1(x1) + w2f2(x2) + +wnfn(xn) Preference Given two know individuals X and Y, if we prefer X than Y, then F(X) > F(Y), that is w1(f1(x1)-f1(y1)) + +wn(fn(xn)-fn(yn)) > 0 Multi-Criterion Fitness All the preferences constitute a linear space Wn={w1,w2, ,wn} w1(f1(x1)-f1(y1)) + +wn(fn(xn)-fn(yn)) > 0 w1(f1(z1)-f1(p1)) + +wn(fn(zn)-fn(pn)) > 0, etc For any two new individuals Y and Y , how to determine which one is more preferable? Multi-Criterion Fitness Multi-Criterion Fitness Other parameters of GA 1 Initialization: Population size Random Dedicated greedy algorithm Reproduction: Generational: as described before (insects) Generational with elitism: fixed number of most fit individuals are copied unmodified into new generation Steady state: two parents are selected to reproduce and two parents are selected to die; two offspring are immediately inserted in the pool (mammals) Other parameters of GA 2 Stop criterion: Number of new chromosomes Number of new and unique chromosomes Number of generations Measure: Best of population Average of population Duplicates Accept all duplicates Avoid too many duplicates, because that degenerates the population (inteelt) No duplicates at all Example run Maxima and Averages of steady state and generational replacement Simulated Annealing What Exploits an analogy between the annealing process and the search for the optimum in a more general system. Annealing Process Annealing Process Raising the temperature up to a very high level (melting temperature, for example), the atoms have a higher energy state and a high possibility to re-arrange the crystalline structure. Cooling down slowly, the atoms have a lower and lower energy state and a smaller and smaller possibility to re-arrange the crystalline structure. Simulated Annealing Analogy Metal Problem Energy State Cost Function Temperature Control Parameter A completely ordered crystalline structure the optimal solution for the problem Metropolis Loop The essential characteristic of simulated annealing Determining how to randomly explore new solution, reject or accept the new solution at a constant temperature T. Finished until equilibrium is achieved. Metropolis Criterion Let X be the current solution and X be the new solution C(x) (C(x ))be the energy state (cost) of x (x ) Probability Paccept = exp [(C(x)-C(x ))/ T] Let N=Random(0,1) Unconditional accepted if C(x ) < C(x), the new solution is better Probably accepted if C(x ) >= C(x), the new solution is worse . Accepted only when N < Paccept Algorithm Initialize initial solution x , highest temperature Th, and coolest temperature Tl T= Th When the temperature is higher than Tl While not in equilibrium Search for the new solution X Accept or reject X according to Metropolis Criterion End Decrease the temperature T End Simulated Annealing Definition of solution Search mechanism, i.e. the definition of a neighborhood Cost-function Control Parameters Definition of equilibrium Cannot yield any significant improvement after certain number of loops A constant number of loops Annealing schedule (i.e. How to reduce the temperature) A constant value, T = T - Td A constant scale factor, T = T * Rd A scale factor usually can achieve better performance Control Parameters Temperature determination Artificial, without physical significant Initial temperature 80-90% acceptance rate Final temperature A constant value, i.e., based on the total number of solutions searched No improvement during the entire Metropolis loop Acceptance rate falling below a given (small) value Problem specific and may need to be tuned Example Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) Given 6 cities and the traveling cost between any two cities A salesman need to start from city 1 and travel all other cities then back to city 1 Minimize the total traveling cost Example Solution representation An integer list, i.e., (1,4,2,3,6,5) Search mechanism Swap any two integers (except for the first one) (1,4,2,3,6,5) (1,4,3,2,6,5) Cost function Example Temperature Initial temperature determination Around 80% acceptation rate for bad move Determine acceptable (Cnew Cold) Final temperature determination Stop criteria Solution space coverage rate Annealing schedule Constant number (90% for example) Depending on solution space coverage rate Others Global optimal is possible, but near optimal is practical Parameter Tuning Aarts, E. and Korst, J. (1989). Simulated Annealing and Boltzmann Machines. John Wiley & Sons. Not easy for parallel implementation Randomly generator Optimization Techniques Mathematical Programming Network Analysis Branch & Bound Genetic Algorithm Simulated Annealing Tabu Search Tabu Search What Neighborhood search + memory Neighborhood search Memory Record the search history Forbid cycling search Algorithm Choose an initial solution X Find a subset of N(x) the neighbor of X which are not in the tabu list. Find the best one (x ) in N(x). If F(x ) > F(x) then set x=x . Modify the tabu list. If a stopping condition is met then stop, else go to the second step. Effective Tabu Search Effective Modeling Neighborhood structure Objective function (fitness or cost) Example Graph coloring problem: Find the minimum number of colors needed such that no two connected nodes share the same color. Aspiration criteria The criteria for overruling the tabu constraints and differentiating the preference of among the neighbors Effective Tabu Search Effective Computing Move may be easier to be stored and computed than a completed solution move: the process of constructing of x from x Computing and storing the fitness difference may be easier than that of the fitness function. Effective Tabu Search Effective Memory Use Variable tabu list size For a constant size tabu list Too long: deteriorate the search results Too short: cannot effectively prevent from cycling Intensification of the search Decrease the tabu list size Diversification of the search Increase the tabu list size Penalize the frequent move or unsatisfied constraints Example A hybrid approach for graph coloring problem R. Dorne and J.K. Hao, A New Genetic Local Search Algorithm for Graph Coloring, 1998 Problem Given an undirected graph G=(V,E) V={v1,v2, ,vn} E={eij} Determine a partition of V in a minimum number of color classes C1,C2, ,Ck such that for each edge eij, vi and vj are not in the same color class. NP-hard General Approach Transform an optimization problem into a decision problem Genetic Algorithm + Tabu Search Meaningful crossover Using Tabu search for efficient local search Encoding Individual (Ci1, Ci2, , Cik) Cost function Number of total conflicting nodes Conflicting node having same color with at least one of its adjacent nodes Neighborhood (move) definition Changing the color of a conflicting node Cost evaluation Special data structures and techniques to improve the efficiency Implementation Parent Selection Random Reproduction/Survivor Crossover Operator Unify independent set (UIS) crossover Independent set Conflict-free nodes set with the same color Try to increase the size of the independent set to improve the performance of the solutions UIS Implementation Mutation With Probability Pw, randomly pick neighbor With Probability 1 Pw, Tabu search Tabu search Tabu list List of {Vi, cj} Tabu tenure (the length of the tabu list) L = a * Nc + Random(g) Nc: Number of conflicted nodes a,g: empirical parameters Summary Neighbor Search TS prevent being trapped in the local minimum with tabu list TS directs the selection of neighbor TS cannot guarantee the optimal result Sequential Adaptive Hill climbing |