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On the mean-field limit for the consensus-based optimization

Optimization and Control 2022-07-20 v1 Analysis of PDEs Dynamical Systems

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the large particle limit for the consensus-based optimization (CBO), which was postulated in the pioneering works [6,28]. In order to solve this open problem, we adapt a compactness argument by first proving the tightness of the empirical measures {μN}N2\{\mu^N\}_{N\geq 2} associated to the particle system and then verifying that the limit measure μ\mu is the unique weak solution to the mean-field CBO equation. Such results are extended to the model of particle swarm optimization (PSO).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2105.12919,
  title  = {On the mean-field limit for the consensus-based optimization},
  author = {Hui Huang and Jinniao Qiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.12919},
  year   = {2022}
}
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