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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2013.128

Using Self-learning and Automatic Tuning to Improve the Performance of Sexual Genetic Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Authors: Hu Xu, Karen Petrie, and Iain Murray

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 35, 2013 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop

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Currently the parameters in a constraint solver are often selected by hand by experts in the field; these parameters might include the level of preprocessing to be used and the variable ordering heuristic. The efficient and automatic choice of a preprocessing level for a constraint solver is a step towards making constraint programming a more widely accessible technology. Self-learning sexual genetic algorithms are a new approach combining a self-learning mechanism with sexual genetic algorithms in order to suggest or predict a suitable solver configuration for large scale problems by learning from the same class of small scale problems. In this paper, Self-learning Sexual genetic algorithms are applied to create an automatic solver configuration mechanism for solving various constraint problems. The starting population of self-learning sexual genetic algorithms will be trained through experience on small instances. The experiments in this paper are a proof-of-concept for the idea of combining sexual genetic algorithms with a self-learning strategy to aid in parameter selection for constraint programming.

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Hu Xu, Karen Petrie, and Iain Murray. Using Self-learning and Automatic Tuning to Improve the Performance of Sexual Genetic Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction Problems. In 2013 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 35, pp. 128-135, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2013)

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@InProceedings{xu_et_al:OASIcs.ICCSW.2013.128,
  author =	{Xu, Hu and Petrie, Karen and Murray, Iain},
  title =	{{Using Self-learning and Automatic Tuning to Improve the Performance of Sexual Genetic Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction Problems}},
  booktitle =	{2013 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop},
  pages =	{128--135},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-63-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2013},
  volume =	{35},
  editor =	{Jones, Andrew V. and Ng, Nicholas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2013.128},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-42811},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2013.128},
  annote =	{Keywords: Self-learning Genetic Algorithm, Sexual Genetic algorithm, Constraint Programming, Parameter Tuning}
}

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