Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2206.14760
M. Kaucic, Filippo Piccotto, Gabriele Sbaiz, G. Valentinuz
In this work, we propose a hybrid variant of the level-based learning swarm optimizer (LLSO) for solving large-scale portfolio optimization problems. Our goal is to maximize a modified formulation of the Sharpe ratio subject to cardinality, box and budget constraints. The algorithm involves a projection operator to deal with these three constraints simultaneously and we implicitly control transaction costs thanks to a rebalancing constraint. We also introduce a suitable exact penalty function to manage the turnover constraint. In addition, we develop an ad hoc mutation operator to modify candidate exemplars in the highest level of the swarm. The experimental results, using three large-scale data sets, show that the inclusion of this procedure improves the accuracy of the solutions. Then, a comparison with other variants of the LLSO algorithm and two state-of-the-art swarm optimizers points out the outstanding performance of the proposed solver in terms of exploration capabilities and solution quality. Finally, we assess the profitability of the portfolio allocation strategy in the last five years using an investible pool of 1119 constituents from the MSCI World Index.
{"title":"A hybrid level-based learning swarm algorithm with mutation operator for solving large-scale cardinality-constrained portfolio optimization problems","authors":"M. Kaucic, Filippo Piccotto, Gabriele Sbaiz, G. Valentinuz","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2206.14760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.14760","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we propose a hybrid variant of the level-based learning swarm optimizer (LLSO) for solving large-scale portfolio optimization problems. Our goal is to maximize a modified formulation of the Sharpe ratio subject to cardinality, box and budget constraints. The algorithm involves a projection operator to deal with these three constraints simultaneously and we implicitly control transaction costs thanks to a rebalancing constraint. We also introduce a suitable exact penalty function to manage the turnover constraint. In addition, we develop an ad hoc mutation operator to modify candidate exemplars in the highest level of the swarm. The experimental results, using three large-scale data sets, show that the inclusion of this procedure improves the accuracy of the solutions. Then, a comparison with other variants of the LLSO algorithm and two state-of-the-art swarm optimizers points out the outstanding performance of the proposed solver in terms of exploration capabilities and solution quality. Finally, we assess the profitability of the portfolio allocation strategy in the last five years using an investible pool of 1119 constituents from the MSCI World Index.","PeriodicalId":13641,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Sci.","volume":"51 1","pages":"321-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86559596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-24DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2206.12330
Lijun Sun, Yu-Cheng Chang, Chao Lyu, Ye Shi, Yuhui Shi, Chin-Teng Lin
The multiple-target self-organizing pursuit (SOP) problem has wide applications and has been considered a challenging self-organization game for distributed systems, in which intelligent agents cooperatively pursue multiple dynamic targets with partial observations. This work proposes a framework for decentralized multi-agent systems to improve the implicit coordination capabilities in search and pursuit. We model a self-organizing system as a partially observable Markov game (POMG) featured by large-scale, decentralization, partial observation, and noncommunication. The proposed distributed algorithm: fuzzy self-organizing cooperative coevolution (FSC2) is then leveraged to resolve the three challenges in multi-target SOP: distributed self-organizing search (SOS), distributed task allocation, and distributed single-target pursuit. FSC2 includes a coordinated multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MARL) method that enables homogeneous agents to learn natural SOS patterns. Additionally, we propose a fuzzy-based distributed task allocation method, which locally decomposes multi-target SOP into several single-target pursuit problems. The cooperative coevolution principle is employed to coordinate distributed pursuers for each single-target pursuit problem. Therefore, the uncertainties of inherent partial observation and distributed decision-making in the POMG can be alleviated. The experimental results demonstrate that by decomposing the SOP task, FSC2 achieves superior performance compared with other implicit coordination policies fully trained by general MARL algorithms. The scalability of FSC2 is proved that up to 2048 FSC2 agents perform efficient multi-target SOP with almost 100 percent capture rates. Empirical analyses and ablation studies verify the interpretability, rationality, and effectiveness of component algorithms in FSC2.
{"title":"Toward multi-target self-organizing pursuit in a partially observable Markov game","authors":"Lijun Sun, Yu-Cheng Chang, Chao Lyu, Ye Shi, Yuhui Shi, Chin-Teng Lin","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2206.12330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.12330","url":null,"abstract":"The multiple-target self-organizing pursuit (SOP) problem has wide applications and has been considered a challenging self-organization game for distributed systems, in which intelligent agents cooperatively pursue multiple dynamic targets with partial observations. This work proposes a framework for decentralized multi-agent systems to improve the implicit coordination capabilities in search and pursuit. We model a self-organizing system as a partially observable Markov game (POMG) featured by large-scale, decentralization, partial observation, and noncommunication. The proposed distributed algorithm: fuzzy self-organizing cooperative coevolution (FSC2) is then leveraged to resolve the three challenges in multi-target SOP: distributed self-organizing search (SOS), distributed task allocation, and distributed single-target pursuit. FSC2 includes a coordinated multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MARL) method that enables homogeneous agents to learn natural SOS patterns. Additionally, we propose a fuzzy-based distributed task allocation method, which locally decomposes multi-target SOP into several single-target pursuit problems. The cooperative coevolution principle is employed to coordinate distributed pursuers for each single-target pursuit problem. Therefore, the uncertainties of inherent partial observation and distributed decision-making in the POMG can be alleviated. The experimental results demonstrate that by decomposing the SOP task, FSC2 achieves superior performance compared with other implicit coordination policies fully trained by general MARL algorithms. The scalability of FSC2 is proved that up to 2048 FSC2 agents perform efficient multi-target SOP with almost 100 percent capture rates. Empirical analyses and ablation studies verify the interpretability, rationality, and effectiveness of component algorithms in FSC2.","PeriodicalId":13641,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Sci.","volume":"17 1","pages":"119475"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89016589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-19DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2206.09483
Cristina Y. Morimoto, A. Pozo, M. D. Souto
A variety of clustering criteria has been applied as an objective function in Evolutionary Multi-Objective Clustering approaches (EMOCs). However, most EMOCs do not provide detailed analysis regarding the choice and usage of the objective functions. Aiming to support a better choice and definition of the objectives in the EMOCs, this paper proposes an analysis of the admissibility of the clustering criteria in evolutionary optimization by examining the search direction and its potential in finding optimal results. As a result, we demonstrate how the admissibility of the objective functions can influence the optimization. Furthermore, we provide insights regarding the combinations and usage of the clustering criteria in the EMOCs.
{"title":"An Analysis of the Admissibility of the Objective Functions Applied in Evolutionary Multi-objective Clustering","authors":"Cristina Y. Morimoto, A. Pozo, M. D. Souto","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2206.09483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.09483","url":null,"abstract":"A variety of clustering criteria has been applied as an objective function in Evolutionary Multi-Objective Clustering approaches (EMOCs). However, most EMOCs do not provide detailed analysis regarding the choice and usage of the objective functions. Aiming to support a better choice and definition of the objectives in the EMOCs, this paper proposes an analysis of the admissibility of the clustering criteria in evolutionary optimization by examining the search direction and its potential in finding optimal results. As a result, we demonstrate how the admissibility of the objective functions can influence the optimization. Furthermore, we provide insights regarding the combinations and usage of the clustering criteria in the EMOCs.","PeriodicalId":13641,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Sci.","volume":"28 1","pages":"1143-1162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73919127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-08DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2206.03838
Fuhu Wu, Jian Sun, Shun Zhang, Zhili Chen
Reversible data hiding continues to attract significant attention in recent years. In particular, an increasing number of authors focus on the higher significant bit (HSB) plane of an image which can yield more redundant space. On the other hand, the lower significant bit planes are often ignored for embedding in existing schemes due to their harm to the embedding rate. This paper proposes an efficient reversible data hiding scheme via a double-peak two-layer embedding (DTLE) strategy with prediction error expansion. The higher six-bit planes of the image are assigned as the HSB plane, and double prediction error peaks are applied in either embedding layer. This makes fuller use of the redundancy space of images compared with the one error peak strategy. Moreover, we carry out the median-edge detector pre-processing for complex images to reduce the size of the auxiliary information. A series of experimental results show that our DTLE approach achieves up to 83% higher embedding rate on real-world datasets while guaranteeing better image quality.
{"title":"Efficient reversible data hiding via two layers of double-peak embedding","authors":"Fuhu Wu, Jian Sun, Shun Zhang, Zhili Chen","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2206.03838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.03838","url":null,"abstract":"Reversible data hiding continues to attract significant attention in recent years. In particular, an increasing number of authors focus on the higher significant bit (HSB) plane of an image which can yield more redundant space. On the other hand, the lower significant bit planes are often ignored for embedding in existing schemes due to their harm to the embedding rate. This paper proposes an efficient reversible data hiding scheme via a double-peak two-layer embedding (DTLE) strategy with prediction error expansion. The higher six-bit planes of the image are assigned as the HSB plane, and double prediction error peaks are applied in either embedding layer. This makes fuller use of the redundancy space of images compared with the one error peak strategy. Moreover, we carry out the median-edge detector pre-processing for complex images to reduce the size of the auxiliary information. A series of experimental results show that our DTLE approach achieves up to 83% higher embedding rate on real-world datasets while guaranteeing better image quality.","PeriodicalId":13641,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Sci.","volume":"14 1","pages":"119264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74780934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2022.06.061
Liming Xiao, Guangquan Huang, W. Pedrycz, D. Pamučar, Luis Martínez, Genbao Zhang
{"title":"A q-rung orthopair fuzzy decision-making model with new score function and best-worst method for manufacturer selection","authors":"Liming Xiao, Guangquan Huang, W. Pedrycz, D. Pamučar, Luis Martínez, Genbao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ins.2022.06.061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2022.06.061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13641,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Sci.","volume":"36 1","pages":"153-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77937213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-17DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2205.08295
Y. Choi, Gi-Soo Kim, Seung-Jin Paik, M. Paik
Non-stationarity is ubiquitous in human behavior and addressing it in the contextual bandits is challenging. Several works have addressed the problem by investigating semi-parametric contextual bandits and warned that ignoring non-stationarity could harm performances. Another prevalent human behavior is social interaction which has become available in a form of a social network or graph structure. As a result, graph-based contextual bandits have received much attention. In this paper, we propose"SemiGraphTS,"a novel contextual Thompson-sampling algorithm for a graph-based semi-parametric reward model. Our algorithm is the first to be proposed in this setting. We derive an upper bound of the cumulative regret that can be expressed as a multiple of a factor depending on the graph structure and the order for the semi-parametric model without a graph. We evaluate the proposed and existing algorithms via simulation and real data example.
{"title":"Semi-Parametric Contextual Bandits with Graph-Laplacian Regularization","authors":"Y. Choi, Gi-Soo Kim, Seung-Jin Paik, M. Paik","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2205.08295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.08295","url":null,"abstract":"Non-stationarity is ubiquitous in human behavior and addressing it in the contextual bandits is challenging. Several works have addressed the problem by investigating semi-parametric contextual bandits and warned that ignoring non-stationarity could harm performances. Another prevalent human behavior is social interaction which has become available in a form of a social network or graph structure. As a result, graph-based contextual bandits have received much attention. In this paper, we propose\"SemiGraphTS,\"a novel contextual Thompson-sampling algorithm for a graph-based semi-parametric reward model. Our algorithm is the first to be proposed in this setting. We derive an upper bound of the cumulative regret that can be expressed as a multiple of a factor depending on the graph structure and the order for the semi-parametric model without a graph. We evaluate the proposed and existing algorithms via simulation and real data example.","PeriodicalId":13641,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Sci.","volume":"1 1","pages":"119367"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89385821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-13DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2205.10125
Gongao Qi, Bin Yang, Wei Li
Fuzzy rough set (FRS) has a great effect on data mining processes and the fuzzy logical operators play a key role in the development of FRS theory. In order to further generalize the FRS theory to more complicated data environments, we firstly propose four types of fuzzy neighborhood operators based on fuzzy covering by overlap functions and their implicators in this paper. Meanwhile, the derived fuzzy coverings from an original fuzzy covering are defined and the equalities among overlap function-based fuzzy neighborhood operators based on a finite fuzzy covering are also investigated. Secondly, we prove that new operators can be divided into seventeen groups according to equivalence relations, and the partial order relations among these seventeen classes of operators are discussed, as well. Go further, the comparisons with $ t$-norm-based fuzzy neighborhood operators given by D'eer et al. are also made and two types of neighborhood-related fuzzy covering-based rough set models, which are defined via different fuzzy neighborhood operators that are on the basis of diverse kinds of fuzzy logical operators proposed. Furthermore, the groupings and partially order relations are also discussed. Finally, a novel fuzzy TOPSIS methodology is put forward to solve a biosynthetic nanomaterials select issue, and the rationality and enforceability of our new approach is verified by comparing its results with nine different methods.
{"title":"Some neighborhood-related fuzzy covering-based rough set models and their applications for decision making","authors":"Gongao Qi, Bin Yang, Wei Li","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2205.10125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.10125","url":null,"abstract":"Fuzzy rough set (FRS) has a great effect on data mining processes and the fuzzy logical operators play a key role in the development of FRS theory. In order to further generalize the FRS theory to more complicated data environments, we firstly propose four types of fuzzy neighborhood operators based on fuzzy covering by overlap functions and their implicators in this paper. Meanwhile, the derived fuzzy coverings from an original fuzzy covering are defined and the equalities among overlap function-based fuzzy neighborhood operators based on a finite fuzzy covering are also investigated. Secondly, we prove that new operators can be divided into seventeen groups according to equivalence relations, and the partial order relations among these seventeen classes of operators are discussed, as well. Go further, the comparisons with $ t$-norm-based fuzzy neighborhood operators given by D'eer et al. are also made and two types of neighborhood-related fuzzy covering-based rough set models, which are defined via different fuzzy neighborhood operators that are on the basis of diverse kinds of fuzzy logical operators proposed. Furthermore, the groupings and partially order relations are also discussed. Finally, a novel fuzzy TOPSIS methodology is put forward to solve a biosynthetic nanomaterials select issue, and the rationality and enforceability of our new approach is verified by comparing its results with nine different methods.","PeriodicalId":13641,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Sci.","volume":"37 1","pages":"799-843"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80748013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：