Generating Local Search Neighborhood with Synthesized Logic Programs

Autor: Mateusz Ślażyński, Salvador Abreu, Grzegorz J. Nalepa
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol 306, Iss Proc. ICLP 2019, Pp 168-181 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2075-2180
DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.306.22
Popis: Local Search meta-heuristics have been proven a viable approach to solve difficult optimization problems. Their performance depends strongly on the search space landscape, as defined by a cost function and the selected neighborhood operators. In this paper we present a logic programming based framework, named Noodle, designed to generate bespoke Local Search neighborhoods tailored to specific discrete optimization problems. The proposed system consists of a domain specific language, which is inspired by logic programming, as well as a genetic programming solver, based on the grammar evolution algorithm. We complement the description with a preliminary experimental evaluation, where we synthesize efficient neighborhood operators for the traveling salesman problem, some of which reproduce well-known results.
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