[HTML][HTML] Machine learning at the service of meta-heuristics for solving combinatorial optimization problems: A state-of-the-art

M Karimi-Mamaghan, M Mohammadi, P Meyer… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been a growing research interest in integrating machine learning
techniques into meta-heuristics for solving combinatorial optimization problems. This …

Landscape-aware performance prediction for evolutionary multiobjective optimization

A Liefooghe, F Daolio, S Verel, B Derbel… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We expose and contrast the impact of landscape characteristics on the performance of
search heuristics for black-box multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems. A sound …

Automated algorithm selection: Survey and perspectives

P Kerschke, HH Hoos, F Neumann… - Evolutionary …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has long been observed that for practically any computational problem that has been
intensely studied, different instances are best solved using different algorithms. This is …

[HTML][HTML] Algorithm runtime prediction: Methods & evaluation

F Hutter, L Xu, HH Hoos, K Leyton-Brown - Artificial Intelligence, 2014 - Elsevier
Perhaps surprisingly, it is possible to predict how long an algorithm will take to run on a
previously unseen input, using machine learning techniques to build a model of the …

Benchmarking in optimization: Best practice and open issues

T Bartz-Beielstein, C Doerr, D Berg, J Bossek… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
This survey compiles ideas and recommendations from more than a dozen researchers with
different backgrounds and from different institutes around the world. Promoting best practice …

Automated algorithm selection on continuous black-box problems by combining exploratory landscape analysis and machine learning

P Kerschke, H Trautmann - Evolutionary computation, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
In this article, we build upon previous work on designing informative and efficient
Exploratory Landscape Analysis features for characterizing problems' landscapes and show …

[HTML][HTML] Aslib: A benchmark library for algorithm selection

B Bischl, P Kerschke, L Kotthoff, M Lindauer… - Artificial Intelligence, 2016 - Elsevier
The task of algorithm selection involves choosing an algorithm from a set of algorithms on a
per-instance basis in order to exploit the varying performance of algorithms over a set of …

Comprehensive feature-based landscape analysis of continuous and constrained optimization problems using the R-package flacco

P Kerschke, H Trautmann - … in Statistical Computing: From Music Data …, 2019 - Springer
Choosing the best-performing optimizer (s) out of a portfolio of optimization algorithms is
usually a difficult and complex task. It gets even worse, if the underlying functions are …

Improving the state-of-the-art in the traveling salesman problem: An anytime automatic algorithm selection

II Huerta, DA Neira, DA Ortega, V Varas… - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents a new metaheuristic for the euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem
(TSP) based on an Anytime Automatic Algorithm Selection model using a portfolio of five …

Leveraging TSP solver complementarity through machine learning

P Kerschke, L Kotthoff, J Bossek, HH Hoos… - Evolutionary …, 2018 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract The Travelling Salesperson Problem (TSP) is one of the best-studied NP-hard
problems. Over the years, many different solution approaches and solvers have been …