Reinforcement learning for online control of evolutionary algorithms

  • Authors:
  • A. E. Eiben;Mark Horvath;Wojtek Kowalczyk;Martijn C. Schut

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  • Venue:
  • ESOA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Engineering self-organising systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The research reported in this paper is concerned with assessing the usefulness of reinforcment learning (RL) for on-line calibration of parameters in evolutionary algorithms (EA). We are running an RL procedure and the EA simultaneously and the RL is changing the EA parameters on-the-fly. We evaluate this approach experimentally on a range of fitness landscapes with varying degrees of ruggedness. The results show that EA calibrated by the RL-based approach outperforms a benchmark EA.