TY - JOUR TI - BAS-ADAM: An ADAM based approach to improve the performance of beetle antennae search optimizer AU - Khan, A.H. AU - Cao, X. AU - Li, S. AU - Katsikis, V.N. AU - Liao, L. JO - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica PY - 2020 VL - 7 TODO - 2 SP - 461-471 PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) SN - 2329-9266, 2329-9274 TODO - 10.1109/JAS.2020.1003048 TODO - Functions; Particle swarm optimization (PSO), Bench-mark problems; Convergence behaviors; Fast convergence rate; Gradient based optimization algorithms; Gradient estimation; Non-convex objective functions; Nonconvex functions; Particle swarm optimizers, Iterative methods TODO - In this paper, we propose enhancements to Beetle Antennae search BAS algorithm, called BAS-ADAM, to smoothen the convergence behavior and avoid trapping in local-minima for a highly non-convex objective function. We achieve this by adaptively adjusting the step-size in each iteration using the adaptive moment estimation ADAM update rule. The proposed algorithm also increases the convergence rate in a narrow valley. A key feature of the ADAM update rule is the ability to adjust the step-size for each dimension separately instead of using the same step-size. Since ADAM is traditionally used with gradient-based optimization algorithms, therefore we first propose a gradient estimation model without the need to differentiate the objective function. Resultantly, it demonstrates excellent performance and fast convergence rate in searching for the optimum of non-convex functions. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm was tested on three different benchmark problems, including the training of a high-dimensional neural network. The performance is compared with particle swarm optimizer PSO and the original BAS algorithm. © 2014 Chinese Association of Automation. ER -