RLEPSO:Reinforcement learning based Ensemble particle swarm optimizer✱

Evolution is the driving force behind the evolution of biological intelligence. Learning is the driving force behind human civilization. The combination of evolution and learning can form an entire natural world. Now, reinforcement learning has shown significant effects in many places. However, Currently, researchers in the field of optimization algorithms mainly focus on evolution strategies. And there is very little research on learning. Inspired by these ideas, this paper proposes a new particle swarm optimization algorithm Reinforcement learning based Ensemble particle swarm optimizer (RLEPSO) that combines reinforcement learning. The algorithm uses reinforcement learning for pre-training in the design phase to automatically find a more effective combination of parameters for the algorithm to run better and Complete optimization tasks faster. Besides, this algorithm integrates two robust particle swarm variants. And it sets the weight parameters for different algorithms to better adapt to the solution requirements of a variety of different optimization problems, which significantly improves the robustness of the algorithm. RLEPSO makes a certain number of sub-swarms to increase the probability of finding the global optimum and increasing the diversity of particle swarms. This proposed RLEPSO is evaluated on an optimization test functions benchmark set (CEC2013) with 28 functions and compared with other eight particle swarm optimization variants, including three state-of-the-art optimization algorithms. The results show that RLEPSO has better performance and outperforms all compared algorithms.