Gradient-based optimizer: A new metaheuristic optimization algorithm

By Iman Ahmadianfar, O. B. Haddad, X. Chu. Information Sciences, 2020

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Abstract In this study, a novel metaheuristic optimization algorithm, gradient-based optimizer (GBO) is proposed. The GBO, inspired by the gradient-based Newton’s method, uses two main operators: gradient search rule (GSR) and local escaping operator (LEO) and a set of vectors to explore the search space. The GSR employs the gradient-based method to enhance the exploration tendency and accelerate the convergence rate to achieve better positions in the search space. The LEO enables the proposed GBO to escape from local optima. The performance of the new algorithm was evaluated in two phases. 28 mathematical test functions were first used to evaluate various characteristics of the GBO, and then six engineering problems were optimized by the GBO. In the first phase, the GBO was compared with five existing optimization algorithms, indicating that the GBO yielded very promising results due to its enhanced capabilities of exploration, exploitation, convergence, and effective avoidance of local optima. The second phase also demonstrated the superior performance of the GBO in solving complex real-world engineering problems. Source codes of the GBO algorithm are publicly available at http://imanahmadianfar.com/codes/ .

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Numerical Analysis

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INFO: An efficient optimization algorithm based on weighted mean of vectors (2022, methodology): “One of the latest well-established methods is the gradient-based optimizer (GBO)(1), which considers Newtonian logic to explore suitable regions and achieve the global solution [15].”
Metaphor-free dynamic spherical evolution for parameter estimation of photovoltaic modules (2021, methodology): “…investigation algorithm (FBI) (Chou and Nguyen, 2020), atom search optimization (ASO) (Zhao et al., 2019a), gradient-based optimizer (GBO) (Ahmadianfar et al., 2020), CLPSO (Liang et al., 2006), GOTLBO (Chen et al., 2016), MLBSA (Yu et al., 2018), improved JAYA (IJAYA) (Yu et al., 2017)…”