Visualisation of Cost Landscapes in Combinatorial Optimisation Problems
author: Adam Prügel-Bennett,
University of Southampton
published: Feb. 25, 2007, recorded: November 2005, views: 4563
published: Feb. 25, 2007, recorded: November 2005, views: 4563
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Understanding the structure of the cost landscape of optimisation problems is important for algorithm design. In this talk, I discuss one approach based on Barrier Trees which captures the structure of the local minima and barriers between minima for search spaces with up to 10^12 states. This structure allows visualisation of heuristic search strategies. Furthermore, the visualisation can be used to construct a model of the problem which captures many of the relevant features of the real problem, but with a vastly reduced number of states. The model can be used for investigating optimal heuristic strategies.
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