NK Landscape Instances Mimicking the Protein Inverse Folding Problem Towards Future Benchmarks
English
Nielsen, Sune Steinbjorn[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
Danoy, Grégoire[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
Bouvry, Pascal[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
GECCO Companion '15 Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
ACM
Yes
International
978-1-4503-3488-4
New York
USA
The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2015)
from 11-07-2015 to 12-07-2015
Madrid
Spain
[en] NK Landscape ; Genetic Algorithm ; Benchmark function
[en] This paper introduces two new nominal NK Landscape model instances designed to mimic the properties of one challenging optimisation problem from biology: the Inverse Folding Problem (IFP), here focusing on a simpler secondary structure version. Through landscape analysis tests, numerous problem properties are identified and used to parameterise and validate model instances in terms of epistatic links, adaptive- and random walk characteristics. Then the performance of different Genetic Algorithms (GAs) is compared on both the new NK Models and the original IFP, in terms of population diversity, solution quality and convergence characteristics. It is demonstrated that very similar properties are captured in all presented tests with a significantly faster evaluation time compared to the real IFP. The future purpose of such a model is to provide a generic benchmark for algorithms targeting protein sequence optimisation, specifically in protein design. It may also provide the foundation for more in-depth studies of the size, shape and characteristics of the solution space of good solutions to the IFP.
University of Luxembourg: High Performance Computing - ULHPC