Parametric models of local search progression |
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Authors: | Johan Oppen David L. Woodruff |
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Affiliation: | Molde University College, 6402 Molde, Norway E-mail: [Oppen];Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616-8609, USA E-mail: [Woodruff] |
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Abstract: | Algorithms that search for good solutions to optimization problems present a trace of current best objective values over time. We describe an empirical study of parametric models of this progression that are both interesting as ways to characterize the search progression compactly and useful as means of predicting search behavior. In our computational experiments, we give examples of a variety of problems and algorithms where we are able to use the parametric models to make predictions of performance that cross instances and instance sizes. |
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Keywords: | local search time trace search time |
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