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An apprenticeship-learning-based technique is used as a hyper-heuristic to generate heuristics for an online combinatorial problem. It observes and learns from the actions of a known-expert heuristic on small instances, but has the advantage of producing a general heuristic that works well on other larger instances. Specifically, we generate heuristic policies for online bin packing problem by using expert near-optimal policies produced by a hyper-heuristic on small instances, where learning is fast. The ”expert” is a policy matrix that defines an index policy, and the apprenticeship learning is based on observation of the action of the expert policy together with a range of features of the bin being considered, and then applying a k-means classification. We show that the generated policy often performs better than the standard best-fit heuristic even when applied to instances much larger than the training set.
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Asta, S., Özcan, E., Parkes, A.J., Etaner-Uyar, A.Ş. (2013). Generalizing Hyper-heuristics via Apprenticeship Learning. In: Middendorf, M., Blum, C. (eds) Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization. EvoCOP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7832. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37198-1_15
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