Title
An adaptive surrogate-assisted particle swarm optimization for expensive problems
Abstract
To solve engineering problems with evolutionary algorithms, many expensive function evaluations (FEs) are required. To alleviate this difficulty, surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) have attracted increasingly more attention in both academia and industry. Most existing SAEAs either waste computational resources due to the lack of accuracy of the surrogate model or easily fall into the local optimum as the dimension increases. To address these problems, this paper proposes an adaptive surrogate-assisted particle swarm optimization algorithm. In the proposed algorithm, a surrogate model is adaptively selected from a single model and an ensemble model by comparing the best existing solution and the latest obtained solution. Additionally, a model output criterion based on the standard deviation is suggested to improve the stability and generalization ability of the ensemble model. To verify the performance of the proposed algorithm, 10 benchmark functions with different modalities from 10 to 50 dimensions are tested, and the results are compared with those of five state-of-the-art SAEAs. The experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm performs well for most benchmark functions within a limited number of FEs. Moreover, the performance of the proposed algorithm in solving engineering problems is verified by applying the algorithm to the PX oxidation process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s00500-021-06348-2
SOFT COMPUTING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm, Ensemble model, Radial basis functions, Particle swarm optimization
Journal
25
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
24
1432-7643
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xuemei Li100.34
Shaojun Li200.34