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Harmonic competition: a self-organizing multiple criteria optimization.

Y Matsuyama1

  • 1Dept. of Electr. Electron. and Comput. Eng., Waseda Univ., Tokyo.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
|January 1, 1996
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Harmonic competition, an unsupervised learning strategy, self-organizes multiple criteria optimization by balancing conflicting subcosts. This method effectively identifies preferred solutions within the Pareto optimal set for complex problems.

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Area of Science:

  • Computational intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Optimization

Background:

  • Harmonic competition is an unsupervised learning strategy.
  • It operates on a winner-take-all or winner-take-quota principle.
  • Subcosts can be heterogeneous and may conflict.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a general successive learning algorithm for harmonic competition.
  • To apply this algorithm to problems in Euclidean space.
  • To explore self-organizing multiple criteria optimization.

Main Methods:

  • Additive and multiplicative combination of subcosts using adjusting parameters.
  • Derivation of a general successive learning algorithm.
  • Application to vector quantization and traveling salesperson problems.
  • Incorporation of controlled mutations inspired by genetic algorithms.

Main Results:

  • The learning system achieves self-organizing multiple criteria optimization.
  • Parameter control can be determined from the total cost structure.
  • Wide dynamic ranges observed in subcost combination parameters during learning.
  • Near-optimal solutions are found using controlled mutations.

Conclusions:

  • Harmonic competition provides a method for self-organizing multi-objective optimization.
  • The derived algorithm is effective for problems like vector quantization and TSP.
  • Controlled mutations enhance the search for optimal solutions within the Pareto set.