On the Effects of Smoothing Rugged Landscape by Different Toy Problems: A Case Study on UBQP

Wei Wang, Jialong Shi, Jianyong Sun, Arnaud Liefooghe, Qingfu Zhang, Ye Fan

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Abstract

The hardness of the Unconstrained Binary Quadratic Program (UBQP) problem is due its rugged landscape. Various algorithms have been proposed for UBQP, including the Landscape Smoothing Iterated Local Search (LSILS). Different from other UBQP algorithms, LSILS tries to smooth the rugged landscape by building a convex combination of the original UBQP and a toy UBQP. In this paper, our study further investigates the impact of smoothing rugged landscapes using different toy UBQP problems, including a toy UBQP with matrix Q1 (construct by ' +/-1'), a toy UBQP with matrix Q2 (construct by ' +/-i') and a toy UBQP with matrix Q3 (construct randomly). We first assess the landscape flatness of the three toy UBQPs. Subsequently, we test the efficiency of LSILS with different toy UBQPs. Results reveal that the toy UBQP with Q1 (construct by ' +/-1') exhibits the flattest landscape among the three, while the toy UBQP with Q3 (construct randomly) presents the most non-flat landscape. Notably, LSILS using the toy UBQP with Q2 (construct by +/ i) emerges as the most effective, while Q3 (construct randomly) has the poorest result. These findings contribute to a detailed understanding of landscape smoothing techniques in optimizing UBQP.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2024 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2024 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798350308365
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event13th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2024 - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 30 Jun 20245 Jul 2024

Publication series

Name2024 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2024 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference13th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2024
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period30/06/245/07/24

Keywords

  • Homotopic convex (HC) transformation
  • Landscape smoothing
  • Unconstrained Binary Quadratic Programming (UBQP)

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