Optimising Optimisers with Push GP

author = "Michael Lones",

title = "Optimising Optimisers with {Push GP}",

booktitle = "EuroGP 2020: Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Genetic Programming",

year = "2020",

month = "15-17 " # apr,

editor = "Ting Hu and Nuno Lourenco and Eric Medvet",

series = "LNCS",

volume = "12101",

publisher = "Springer Verlag",

address = "Seville, Spain",

pages = "101--117",

organisation = "EvoStar, Species",

keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Optimisation, Metaheuristics",

isbn13 = "978-3-030-44093-0",

URL = "

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00945",

video_url = "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRvH7CdbFDo",

DOI = "

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44094-7_7",

size = "16 pages",

abstract = "This work uses Push GP to automatically design both local and population-based optimisers for continuous-valued problems. The optimisers are trained on a single function optimisation landscape, using random transformations to discourage overfitting. They are then tested for generality on larger versions of the same problem, and on other continuous-valued problems. In most cases, the optimisers generalise well to the larger problems. Surprisingly, some of them also generalise very well to previously unseen problems, outperforming existing general purpose optimisers such as CMA-ES. Analysis of the behaviour of the evolved optimisers indicates a range of interesting optimisation strategies that are not found within conventional optimisers, suggesting that this approach could be useful for discovering novel and effective forms of optimisation in an automated manner.",

notes = "http://www.evostar.org/2020/cfp_eurogp.php Part of \cite{Hu:2020:GP} EuroGP'2020 held in conjunction with EvoCOP2020, EvoMusArt2020 and EvoApplications2020",