Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2013

Abstract

Automated algorithm configuration methods have proven to be instrumental in deriving high-performing algorithms and such methods are increasingly often used to configure evolutionary algorithms. One major challenge in devising automatic algorithm configuration techniques is to handle the inherent stochasticity in the configuration problems. This article analyses a post-selection mechanism that can also be used for this task. The central idea of the post-selection mechanism is to generate in a first phase a set of high-quality candidate algorithm configurations and then to select in a second phase from this candidate set the (statistically) best configuration. Our analysis of this mechanism indicates its high potential and suggests that it may be helpful to improve automatic algorithm configuration methods.

Keywords

Automatic algorithm configuration, Post-selection, Search

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Computer Sciences | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

Publication

GECCO'13: Proceedings of the 2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: July 6-10, 2013, Amsterdam

First Page

1557

Last Page

1564

ISBN

9781450319638

Identifier

10.1145/2463372.2463562

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Copyright Owner and License

LARC

Additional URL

http://doi.org/10.1145/2463372.2463562

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