Can anyone explain how different is this hybrid PSOGA from normal GA? - algorithm

Question

Does this code have mutation, selection, and crossover, just like the original genetic algorithm.
Since this, a hybrid algorithm (i.e PSO with GA) does it use all steps of original GA or skips some
of them.Please do tell me.
I am just new to this and still trying to understand. Thank you.
%%% Hybrid GA and PSO code
function [gbest, gBestScore, all_scores] = QAP_PSO_GA(CreatePopFcn, FitnessFcn, UpdatePosition, ...
nCity, nPlant, nPopSize, nIters)
% Set algorithm parameters
constant = 0.95;
c1 = 1.5; %1.4944; %2;
c2 = 1.5; %1.4944; %2;
w = 0.792 * constant;
% Allocate memory and initialize
gBestScore = inf;
all_scores = inf * ones(nPopSize, nIters);
x = CreatePopFcn(nPopSize, nCity);
v = zeros(nPopSize, nCity);
pbest = x;
% update lbest
cost_p = inf * ones(1, nPopSize); %feval(FUN, pbest');
for i=1:nPopSize
cost_p(i) = FitnessFcn(pbest(i, 1:nPlant));
end
lbest = update_lbest(cost_p, pbest, nPopSize);
for iter = 1 : nIters
if mod(iter,1000) == 0
parents = randperm(nPopSize);
for i = 1:nPopSize
x(i,:) = (pbest(i,:) + pbest(parents(i),:))/2;
% v(i,:) = pbest(parents(i),:) - x(i,:);
% v(i,:) = (v(i,:) + v(parents(i),:))/2;
end
else
% Update velocity
v = w*v + c1*rand(nPopSize,nCity).*(pbest-x) + c2*rand(nPopSize,nCity).*(lbest-x);
% Update position
x = x + v;
x = UpdatePosition(x);
end
% Update pbest
cost_x = inf * ones(1, nPopSize);
for i=1:nPopSize
cost_x(i) = FitnessFcn(x(i, 1:nPlant));
end
s = cost_x<cost_p;
cost_p = (1-s).*cost_p + s.*cost_x;
s = repmat(s',1,nCity);
pbest = (1-s).*pbest + s.*x;
% update lbest
lbest = update_lbest(cost_p, pbest, nPopSize);
% update global best
all_scores(:, iter) = cost_x;
[cost,index] = min(cost_p);
if (cost < gBestScore)
gbest = pbest(index, :);
gBestScore = cost;
end
% draw current fitness
figure(1);
plot(iter,min(cost_x),'cp','MarkerEdgeColor','k','MarkerFaceColor','g','MarkerSize',8)
hold on
str=strcat('Best fitness: ', num2str(min(cost_x)));
disp(str);
end
end
% Function to update lbest
function lbest = update_lbest(cost_p, x, nPopSize)
sm(1, 1)= cost_p(1, nPopSize);
sm(1, 2:3)= cost_p(1, 1:2);
[cost, index] = min(sm);
if index==1
lbest(1, :) = x(nPopSize, :);
else
lbest(1, :) = x(index-1, :);
end
for i = 2:nPopSize-1
sm(1, 1:3)= cost_p(1, i-1:i+1);
[cost, index] = min(sm);
lbest(i, :) = x(i+index-2, :);
end
sm(1, 1:2)= cost_p(1, nPopSize-1:nPopSize);
sm(1, 3)= cost_p(1, 1);
[cost, index] = min(sm);
if index==3
lbest(nPopSize, :) = x(1, :);
else
lbest(nPopSize, :) = x(nPopSize-2+index, :);
end
end

Answer 1

If you are new to Optimization, I recommend you first to study each algorithm separately, then you may study how GA and PSO maybe combined, Although you must have basic mathematical skills in order to understand the operators of the two algorithms and in order to test the efficiency of these algorithm (this is what really matter).
This code chunk is responsible for parent selection and crossover:
parents = randperm(nPopSize);
for i = 1:nPopSize
x(i,:) = (pbest(i,:) + pbest(parents(i),:))/2;
% v(i,:) = pbest(parents(i),:) - x(i,:);
% v(i,:) = (v(i,:) + v(parents(i),:))/2;
end
Is not really obvious how selection randperm is done (I have no experience about Matlab).
And this is the code that is responsible for updating the velocity and position of each particle:
% Update velocity
v = w*v + c1*rand(nPopSize,nCity).*(pbest-x) + c2*rand(nPopSize,nCity).*(lbest-x);
% Update position
x = x + v;
x = UpdatePosition(x);
This version of velocity updating strategy is utilizing what is called Interia-Weight W, which basically mean we are preserving the velocity history of each particle (not completely recomputing it).
It worth mentioning that velocity updating is done more often than crossover (each 1000 iteration).