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Table 7 Performance for optimizing the combination of six drugs in the presence of noise.

From: Adaptive reference update (ARU) algorithm. A stochastic search algorithm for efficient optimization of multi-drug cocktails

 

Noise level

Search type

Performance metric

Gur Game (simultaneous)

Gur Game (sequential)

Previous search algorithm[11](α= 1)

ARU algorithm (proposed) (α= 1)

f6a(x)

(2%)

A

success rate unique comb.

91%

43%

100%

100%

    

1280.0

1214.1

476.8

432.6

  

B

success rate iterations

90%

43%

100%

100%

    

1352.6

1662.6

531.4

503.6

 

(5%)

A

success rate unique comb.

90%

44%

99%

99%

    

1262.3

1247.2

621.0

598.3

  

B

success rate iterations

90%

45%

100%

100%

    

1396.8

1675.9

763.7

736.1

 

(8%)

A

success rate unique comb.

90%

46%

98%

98%

    

1204.7

1302.4

723.2

698.8

  

B

success rate iterations

90%

46%

98%

98%

    

1412.2

1681.9

875.2

834.3

f6b(x)

(2%)

A

success rate unique comb.

91%

43%

100%

100%

    

509.9

971.0

341.4

237.7

  

B

success rate iterations

94%

44%

100%

100%

    

1240.7

1646.0

436.5

293.5

 

(5%)

A

success rate unique comb.

90%

42%

100%

100%

    

473.8

970.7

349.9

279.8

  

B

success rate iterations

94%

44%

100%

100%

    

1278.6

1704.9

480.8

324.6

 

(8%)

A

success rate unique comb.

89%

42%

100%

100%

    

454.4

969.9

457.4

353.2

  

B

success rate iterations

94%

44%

100%

100%

    

1333.1

1775.5

545.3

391.5