Colony-Enhanced Recurrent Neural Architecture Search: Collaborative Ant-Based Optimization (2401.17480v1)
Abstract: Crafting neural network architectures manually is a formidable challenge often leading to suboptimal and inefficient structures. The pursuit of the perfect neural configuration is a complex task, prompting the need for a metaheuristic approach such as Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Drawing inspiration from the ingenious mechanisms of nature, this paper introduces Collaborative Ant-based Neural Topology Search (CANTS-N), pushing the boundaries of NAS and Neural Evolution (NE). In this innovative approach, ant-inspired agents meticulously construct neural network structures, dynamically adapting within a dynamic environment, much like their natural counterparts. Guided by Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), CANTS-N's colonies optimize architecture searches, achieving remarkable improvements in mean squared error (MSE) over established methods, including BP-free CANTS, BP CANTS, and ANTS. Scalable, adaptable, and forward-looking, CANTS-N has the potential to reshape the landscape of NAS and NE. This paper provides detailed insights into its methodology, results, and far-reaching implications.
- An ant colony optimization approach to the probabilistic traveling salesman problem. In International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (2002), Springer, pp. 883–892.
- Deepswarm: Optimising convolutional neural networks using swarm intelligence. In Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems: Contributions Presented at the 19th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, September 4-6, 2019, Portsmouth, UK 19 (2020), Springer, pp. 119–130.
- Handling multiple objectives with particle swarm optimization. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 8, 3 (2004), 256–279.
- mpi4py: Status update after 12 years of development. Computing in Science & Engineering 23, 4 (2021), 47–54.
- Parallel distributed computing using python. Advances in Water Resources 34, 9 (2011), 1124–1139. New Computational Methods and Software Tools.
- Mpi for python. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 65, 9 (2005), 1108–1115.
- Mpi for python: Performance improvements and mpi-2 extensions. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 68, 5 (2008), 655–662.
- Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem. IEEE Transactions on evolutionary computation 1, 1 (1997), 53–66.
- ElSaid, A. Continuous ant-based neural topology search. Software Impacts 19 (Mar 2024), 100615.
- Optimizing long short-term memory recurrent neural networks using ant colony optimization to predict turbine engine vibration. Applied Soft Computing 73 (2018), 969–991.
- Continuous ant-based neural topology search. In International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (Part of EvoStar) (2021), Springer, pp. 291–306.
- Ant-based neural topology search (ants) for optimizing recurrent networks. In International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (Part of EvoStar) (2020), Springer, pp. 626–641.
- Backpropagation-free 4d continuous ant-based neural topology search. Applied Soft Computing 147 (2023), 110737.
- Optimizing lstm rnns using aco to predict turbine engine vibration. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (2017), ACM, pp. 21–22.
- The ant swarm neuro-evolution procedure for optimizing recurrent networks, 2019.
- Gordon, D. M. Ant encounters: interaction networks and colony behavior, vol. 1. Princeton University Press, 2010.
- Efficient network architecture search via multiobjective particle swarm optimization based on decomposition. Neural Networks 123 (2020), 305–316.
- Neural architecture search using particle swarm and ant colony optimization.
- A survey on evolutionary neural architecture search. IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems (2021).
- M. Dorigo and L. M. Gambardella. Ant colonies for the travelling sales man problem. BioSystems, 43(2):73–81 (1997).
- Parallel ant colony optimization for the traveling salesman problem. In International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (2006), Springer, pp. 224–234.
- Active inference: the free energy principle in mind, brain, and behavior. MIT Press, 2022.
- Improving pso-based multi-objective optimization using crowding, mutation and ϵitalic-ϵ\epsilonitalic_ϵ-dominance. In International conference on evolutionary multi-criterion optimization (2005), Springer, pp. 505–519.
- Ant colony optimization for continuous domains. European journal of operational research 185, 3 (2008), 1155–1173.
- Ueltzhöffer, K. Deep active inference. Biological cybernetics 112, 6 (2018), 547–573.
- Evolving deep neural networks by multi-objective particle swarm optimization for image classification. In Proceedings of the genetic and evolutionary computation conference (2019), pp. 490–498.
- A multi-objective particle swarm optimization for neural networks pruning. In 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) (2019), IEEE, pp. 570–577.