Nelder-Mead Method with Local Selection Using Neighborhood and Memory for Stochastic Optimization
- 1 Kasetsart University, Thailand
Abstract
We consider the Nelder-Mead (NM) simplex algorithm for optimization of discrete-event stochastic simulation models. We propose new modifications of NM to reduce computational time and to improve quality of the estimated optimal solutions. Our means include utilizing past information of already seen solutions, expanding search space to their neighborhood and using adaptive sample sizes. We compare performance of these extensions on six test functions with 3 levels of random variations. We find that using past information leads to reduction of computational efforts by up to 20%. The adaptive modifications need more resources than the non-adaptive counterparts for up to 70% but give better-quality solutions. We recommend the adaptive algorithms with using memory with or without neighborhood structure.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2013.463.476
Copyright: © 2013 Noocharin Tippayawannakorn and Juta Pichitlamken. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Nelder-Mead Simplex
- Adaptive Nelder-Mead Simplex
- Continuous Stochastic Optimization
- Neighborhood Search
- Local Selection