Manually designing a convolutional neural network (CNN) is an important deep learning method for solving the problem of image classification. However, most of the existing CNN structure designs consume a significant amount of time and computing resources. Over the years, the demand for neural architecture search (NAS) methods has been on the rise. Therefore, we propose a novel deep architecture generation model based on Aquila optimization (AO) and a genetic algorithm (GA). The main contributions of this paper are as follows: Firstly, a new encoding strategy representing the CNN coding structure is proposed, so that the evolutionary computing algorithm can be combined with CNN. Secondly, a new mechanism for updating location is proposed, which incorporates three typical operators from GA cleverly into the model we have designed so that the model can find the optimal solution in the limited search space. Thirdly, the proposed method can deal with the variable-length CNN structure by adding skip connections. Fourthly, combining traditional CNN layers and residual blocks and introducing a grouping strategy provides greater possibilities for searching for the optimal CNN structure. Additionally, we use two notable datasets, consisting of the MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets for model evaluation. The experimental results show that our proposed model has good results in terms of search accuracy and time.
Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a network composed of a group of wireless sensors with limited energy. With the proliferation of sensor nodes, organization and management of sensor nodes become a challenging task. In this paper, a new topology is proposed to solve the routing problem in wireless sensor networks. Firstly, the sensor nodes are layered to avoid the ring path between cluster heads. Then the nodes of each layer are clustered to facilitate the integration of information and reduce energy dissipation. Moreover, we propose efficient multiverse optimization to mitigate the impact of local optimal solution prematurely and the population diversity declines prematurely. Extensive empirical studies on the CEC 2013 benchmark demonstrate the effectiveness of our new approach. The improved algorithm is further combined with the new topology to handle the routing problem in wireless sensor networks. The energy dissipation generated in routing is significantly lower than that of Multi-Verse Optimizer, Particle Swarm Optimization, and Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization in a wireless sensor network consisting of 5000 nodes.
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