Faster black-box algorithms through higher arity operators

Benjamin Doerr; Daniel Johannsen; Timo Kötzing; Per Kristian Lehre; Markus Wagner; Carola Winzen

doi:10.1145/1967654.1967669

Faster black-box algorithms through higher arity operators

Benjamin Doerr^*
, Daniel Johannsen
, Timo Kötzing
, Per Kristian Lehre
, Markus Wagner
, Carola Winzen

^*Corresponding author for this work

Computer Science

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Abstract

We extend the work of Lehre and Witt (GECCO 2010) on the unbiased black-box model by considering higher arity variation operators. In particular, we show that already for binary operators the black-box complexity of LeadingOnes drops from θ(n²) for unary operators to O(n log n). For ONEMAX, the Ω(n log n) unary black-box complexity drops to O(n) in the binary case. For k-ary operators, k ≤ n, the ONEMAX-complexity further decreases to O(n= log k).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	FOGA'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM/SIGEVO Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XI
Pages	163-171
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1967654.1967669
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	11th Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshop, FOGA XI - Schwarzenberg, Austria Duration: 5 Jan 2011 → 9 Jan 2011

Conference

Conference	11th Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshop, FOGA XI
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Schwarzenberg
Period	5/01/11 → 9/01/11

Keywords

Black-box complexity
Pseudo-Boolean optimization
Runtime analysis
Theory

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Computational Theory and Mathematics
Theoretical Computer Science

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