NeuralMinimizer: A Novel Method for Global Optimization
The problem of finding the global minimum of multidimensional functions is often applied to a wide range of problems. An innovative method of finding the global minimum of multidimensional functions is presented here. This method first generates an approximation of the objective function using only...
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| author | Ioannis G. Tsoulos Alexandros Tzallas Evangelos Karvounis Dimitrios Tsalikakis |
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| description | The problem of finding the global minimum of multidimensional functions is often applied to a wide range of problems. An innovative method of finding the global minimum of multidimensional functions is presented here. This method first generates an approximation of the objective function using only a few real samples from it. These samples construct the approach using a machine learning model. Next, the required sampling is performed by the approximation function. Furthermore, the approach is improved on each sample by using found local minima as samples for the training set of the machine learning model. In addition, as a termination criterion, the proposed technique uses a widely used criterion from the relevant literature which in fact evaluates it after each execution of the local minimization. The proposed technique was applied to a number of well-known problems from the relevant literature, and the comparative results with respect to modern global minimization techniques are shown to be extremely promising. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-100f4df0abc34db2b45896b00cbd3e3a2023-11-16T21:11:52ZengMDPI AGInformation2078-24892023-01-011426610.3390/info14020066NeuralMinimizer: A Novel Method for Global OptimizationIoannis G. Tsoulos0Alexandros Tzallas1Evangelos Karvounis2Dimitrios Tsalikakis3Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Ioannina, 47100 Arta, GreeceDepartment of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Ioannina, 47100 Arta, GreeceDepartment of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Ioannina, 47100 Arta, GreeceDepartment of Engineering Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Western Macedonia, 50100 Kozani, GreeceThe problem of finding the global minimum of multidimensional functions is often applied to a wide range of problems. An innovative method of finding the global minimum of multidimensional functions is presented here. This method first generates an approximation of the objective function using only a few real samples from it. These samples construct the approach using a machine learning model. Next, the required sampling is performed by the approximation function. Furthermore, the approach is improved on each sample by using found local minima as samples for the training set of the machine learning model. In addition, as a termination criterion, the proposed technique uses a widely used criterion from the relevant literature which in fact evaluates it after each execution of the local minimization. The proposed technique was applied to a number of well-known problems from the relevant literature, and the comparative results with respect to modern global minimization techniques are shown to be extremely promising.https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/14/2/66global optimizationneural networksstochastic methods |
| spellingShingle | Ioannis G. Tsoulos Alexandros Tzallas Evangelos Karvounis Dimitrios Tsalikakis NeuralMinimizer: A Novel Method for Global Optimization Information global optimization neural networks stochastic methods |
| title | NeuralMinimizer: A Novel Method for Global Optimization |
| title_full | NeuralMinimizer: A Novel Method for Global Optimization |
| title_fullStr | NeuralMinimizer: A Novel Method for Global Optimization |
| title_full_unstemmed | NeuralMinimizer: A Novel Method for Global Optimization |
| title_short | NeuralMinimizer: A Novel Method for Global Optimization |
| title_sort | neuralminimizer a novel method for global optimization |
| topic | global optimization neural networks stochastic methods |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/14/2/66 |
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