This article analyzes the stochasticruntime of a Cross-Entropy algorithm mimicking an Max-MM Ant System with iteration-best reinforcement. It investigates the impact of magnitude of the sample size on the runtime to ...
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This article analyzes the stochasticruntime of a Cross-Entropy algorithm mimicking an Max-MM Ant System with iteration-best reinforcement. It investigates the impact of magnitude of the sample size on the runtime to find optimal solutions for TSP instances. For simple TSP instances that have a {1,n}-valued distance function and a unique optimal solution, we show that sample size N is an element of omega(Inn) results in a stochastically polynomial runtime, and N is an element of O(In n) results in a stochastically exponential runtime, where "stochastically" means with a probability of 1 - n(-omega(1)), and n represents number of cities. In particular, for N is an element of omega(In n), we prove a stochasticruntime of O(N . n(6)) with the vertex-based random solution generation, and a stochasticruntime of O(N . n(3) Inn) with the edge-based random solution generation. These runtimes are very close to the best known expected runtime for variants of Max-Min Ant System with best-so-far reinforcement by choosing a small N is an element of omega(In n). They are obtained for the stronger notion of stochasticruntime, and analyze the runtime in most cases. We also inspect more complex instances with n vertices positioned on an m x m grid. When the n vertices span a convex polygon, we obtain a stochasticruntime of O(n(4)m(3+is an element of)) with the vertex-based random solution generation, and a stochasticruntime of O(n(3)m(3+is an element of)) for the edge-based random solution generation. When there are k is an element of O(1) many vertices inside a convex polygon spanned by the other n k vertices, we obtain a stochasticruntime of O(n(4)m(5+is an element of) + n(6k-1)m(is an element of)) with the vertex-based random solution generation, and a stochasticruntime of O(n(3)m(5+is an element of) + n(3k)m(is an element of)) with the edge-based random solution generation. These runtimes are better than the expected runtime for the so-called (mu+lambda) EA reported in a r
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