Evaluation of Neural Architecture Search Approaches for Offshore Platform Offset Prediction

Abstract

This paper proposes a solution based on Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) to predict the offset of the center of gravity of an offshore platform. It also performs a comparative study with three optimization algorithms – Random Search, Simulated Annealing, and Bayesian Optimization (BO) – to find the best MLP architecture. Although BO obtained the best architecture in the shortest time, ablation studies developed in this paper with hyperparameters of the optimization process showed that the result is sensitive to them and deserves attention in the Neural Architecture Search process.