Title
Sustainable cooperative coevolution with a multi-armed bandit
Abstract
This paper proposes a self-adaptation mechanism to manage the resources allocated to the different species comprising a cooperative coevolutionary algorithm. The proposed approach relies on a dynamic extension to the well-known multi-armed bandit framework. At each iteration, the dynamic multi-armed bandit makes a decision on which species to evolve for a generation, using the history of progress made by the different species to guide the decisions. We show experimentally, on a benchmark and a real-world problem, that evolving the different populations at different paces allows not only to identify solutions more rapidly, but also improves the capacity of cooperative coevolution to solve more complex problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2463372.2463556
genetic and evolutionary computation conference
Keywords
DocType
Volume
cooperative coevolutionary algorithm,different population,sustainable cooperative coevolution,different pace,dynamic multi-armed bandit,cooperative coevolution,different species,complex problem,well-known multi-armed bandit framework,dynamic extension,multi armed bandit
Conference
abs/1304.3138
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.38
12
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
François-Michel De Rainville11999.27
Michèle Sebag21547138.94
Christian Gagné362752.38
Marc Schoenauer42500350.82
Denis Laurendeau5803169.72