Tensorized Ant Colony Optimization for GPU Acceleration

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Autori principali: Yang, Luming, Jiang, Tao, Cheng, Ran
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author Yang, Luming
Jiang, Tao
Cheng, Ran
author_facet Yang, Luming
Jiang, Tao
Cheng, Ran
contents Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is renowned for its effectiveness in solving Traveling Salesman Problems, yet it faces computational challenges in CPU-based environments, particularly with large-scale instances. In response, we introduce a Tensorized Ant Colony Optimization (TensorACO) to utilize the advancements of GPU acceleration. As the core, TensorACO fully transforms ant system and ant path into tensor forms, a process we refer to as tensorization. For the tensorization of ant system, we propose a preprocessing method to reduce the computational overhead by calculating the probability transition matrix. In the tensorization of ant path, we propose an index mapping method to accelerate the update of pheromone matrix by replacing the mechanism of sequential path update with parallel matrix operations. Additionally, we introduce an Adaptive Independent Roulette (AdaIR) method to overcome the challenges of parallelizing ACO's selection mechanism on GPUs. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of TensorACO achieving up to 1921$\times$ speedup over standard ACO. Moreover, the AdaIR method further improves TensorACO's convergence speed by 80% and solution quality by 2%. Source codes are available at https://github.com/EMI-Group/tensoraco.
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spellingShingle Tensorized Ant Colony Optimization for GPU Acceleration
Yang, Luming
Jiang, Tao
Cheng, Ran
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is renowned for its effectiveness in solving Traveling Salesman Problems, yet it faces computational challenges in CPU-based environments, particularly with large-scale instances. In response, we introduce a Tensorized Ant Colony Optimization (TensorACO) to utilize the advancements of GPU acceleration. As the core, TensorACO fully transforms ant system and ant path into tensor forms, a process we refer to as tensorization. For the tensorization of ant system, we propose a preprocessing method to reduce the computational overhead by calculating the probability transition matrix. In the tensorization of ant path, we propose an index mapping method to accelerate the update of pheromone matrix by replacing the mechanism of sequential path update with parallel matrix operations. Additionally, we introduce an Adaptive Independent Roulette (AdaIR) method to overcome the challenges of parallelizing ACO's selection mechanism on GPUs. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of TensorACO achieving up to 1921$\times$ speedup over standard ACO. Moreover, the AdaIR method further improves TensorACO's convergence speed by 80% and solution quality by 2%. Source codes are available at https://github.com/EMI-Group/tensoraco.
title Tensorized Ant Colony Optimization for GPU Acceleration
topic Neural and Evolutionary Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04895