A Connectionist Machine for Genetic Hillclimbing (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Band 28) - Softcover

Ackley, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1461291925 ISBN 13: 9781461291923

Verlag: Springer, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

In the "black box function optimization" problem, a search strategy is required to find an extremal point of a function without knowing the structure of the function or the range of possible function values. Solving such problems efficiently requires two abilities. On the one hand, a strategy must be capable of learning while searching: It must gather global information about the space and concentrate the search in the most promising regions. On the other hand, a strategy must be capable of sustained exploration: If a search of the most promising region does not uncover a satisfactory point, the strategy must redirect its efforts into other regions of the space. This dissertation describes a connectionist learning machine that produces a search strategy called stochastic iterated genetic hillclimb­ ing (SIGH). Viewed over a short period of time, SIGH displays a coarse-to-fine searching strategy, like simulated annealing and genetic algorithms. However, in SIGH the convergence process is reversible. The connectionist implementation makes it possible to diverge the search after it has converged, and to recover coarse-grained informa­ tion about the space that was suppressed during convergence. The successful optimization of a complex function by SIGH usually in­ volves a series of such converge/diverge cycles.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1461291925
• ISBN 13: 9781461291923
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
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