optimisation
Cooperation example
optimum
Each particle is moving and hence has a
velocity.
Each particle remembers the position it
was in where it had its best result so far
(its personal best)
But this would not be much good on its own;
Initialization. Positions
and velocities
Neighbourhoods
geographica
l
social
Neighbourhoods
Global
The circular
neighbourhood
1
Particle 1s 3neighbourhoo
d
Virtual circle
6
5
pi
Here I
am! x
My
best
perf.
pg
The best
perf. of my
neighbour
s
Pseudocode
http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials
.php
Equation (a)
v[] = c0 *v[]
+ c1 * rand() * (pbest[] - present[])
+ c2 * rand() * (gbest[] - present[])
(in the original method, c0=1, but many
researchers now play with this parameter)
Equation (b)
present[] = present[] + v[]
Particle Swarm optimisation
Pseudocode
http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials
.php
For each particle
Initialize particle
END
Do
Choose the particle with the best fitness value of all as gBest
For each particle
Calculate particle velocity according equation (a)
Update particle position according equation (b)
End
While maximum iterations or minimum error criteria is not attained
Pseudocode
http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials
.php
Particles' velocities on each dimension
are clamped to a maximum velocity
Vmax. If the sum of accelerations would
cause the velocity on that dimension to
exceed Vmax, which is a parameter
specified by the user. Then the velocity
on that dimension is limited to Vmax.
Parameters
Number of particles
(swarmsize)
C1 (importance of personal best)
C2 (importance of neighbourhood
best)
Vmax: limit on velocity
Particle Swarm optimisation
How to choose
Theright
way
parameters
way
This
Orthisway
Parameters
Number of particles
Rastrigin
Rosenbrock
Griewank [300]
0.003944
0.4033
Rastrigin [5]
82.95618
46.4689
1610.359
This is from
Poli, R. (2008).
"Analysis of the publications on the applications of particle swarm optimisation".
Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications 2008: 110.
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So is this
Epistemy Ltd
Particle Swarm optimisation
I try to generate a
new particle
Adaptive coefficients
v
The better I
am, the more I
follow my own
way
rand(0b)(p-x)
The better is my best
neighbour, the more
I tend to go towards
him