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This paper presents a particle-based optimization method designed for addressing minimization problems with equality constraints, particularly in cases where the loss function exhibits non-differentiability or non-convexity. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 José A. Carrillo , Shi Jin , Haoyu Zhang , Yuhua Zhu

In this paper, we are interested in finding the global minimizer of a nonsmooth nonconvex unconstrained optimization problem. By combining the discrete consensus-based optimization (CBO) algorithm and the gradient descent method, we develop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Jiazhen Wei , Fan Wu , Wei Bian

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a search algorithm based on stochastic and population-based adaptive optimization. In this paper, a pathfinding strategy is proposed to improve the efficiency of path planning for a broad range of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-24 David , Budi Adiperdana

The particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm has been recently introduced in the non--linear programming, becoming widely studied and used in a variety of applications. Starting from its original formulation, many variants for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Silvano Chiaradonna , Felicita Di Giandomenico , Nadir Murru

We propose a multi-swarm approach to approximate the Pareto front of general multi-objective optimization problems that is based on the Consensus-based Optimization method (CBO). The algorithm is motivated step by step beginning with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Kathrin Klamroth , Michael Stiglmayr , Claudia Totzeck

We introduce a practical method for incorporating equality and inequality constraints in global optimization methods based on stochastic interacting particle systems, specifically consensus-based optimization (CBO) and ensemble Kalman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-05 J. A. Carrillo , C. Totzeck , U. Vaes

In this work we propose MirrorCBO, a consensus-based optimization (CBO) method which generalizes standard CBO in the same way that mirror descent generalizes gradient descent. For this we apply the CBO methodology to a swarm of dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Leon Bungert , Franca Hoffmann , Dohyeon Kim , Tim Roith

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is attracting an ever-growing attention and more than ever it has found many application areas for many challenging optimization problems. It is, however, a known fact that PSO has a severe drawback in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Bertrand Ngansop , Stefan Götz , Martin Eckl

In this paper, we focus on finding the global minimizer of a general unconstrained nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problem. Taking advantage of the smoothing method and the consensus-based optimization (CBO) method, we propose a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Jiazhen Wei , Wei Bian

PSO is a widely recognized optimization algorithm inspired by social swarm. In this brief we present a heterogeneous strategy particle swarm optimization (HSPSO), in which a proportion of particles adopt a fully informed strategy to enhance…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Wen-Bo Du , Wen Ying , Gang Yan , Yan-Bo Zhu , Xian-Bin Cao

In this work we survey some recent results on the global minimization of a non-convex and possibly non-smooth high dimensional objective function by means of particle based gradient-free methods. Such problems arise in many situations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-21 Sara Grassi , Hui Huang , Lorenzo Pareschi , Jinniao Qiu

Traditional methods present a very restrictive range of applications, mainly limited by the features of the function to be optimized and of the constraint functions. In contrast, evolutionary algorithms present almost no restriction to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Mauro S. Innocente , Johann Sienz

In this paper we propose polarized consensus-based dynamics in order to make consensus-based optimization (CBO) and sampling (CBS) applicable for objective functions with several global minima or distributions with many modes, respectively.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Leon Bungert , Tim Roith , Philipp Wacker

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a meta-heuristic for continuous black-box optimization problems. In this paper we focus on the convergence of the particle swarm, i.e., the exploitation phase of the algorithm. We introduce a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Bernd Bassimir , Alexander Raß , Rolf Wanka

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is an iterative search method that moves a set of candidate solution around a search-space towards the best known global and local solutions with randomized step lengths. PSO frequently accelerates…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Johannes Jakubik , Adrian Binding , Stefan Feuerriegel

We introduce a modified Consensus-Based Optimization model that admits a fully unified and rigorous analysis of its finite-particle dynamics, the associated McKean--Vlasov equation, and their optimization behavior under a single set of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Young-Pil Choi , Seungchan Lee , Sihyun Song

Introduced in 2017 \cite{B1-pinnau2017consensus}, Consensus-Based Optimization (CBO) has rapidly emerged as a significant breakthrough in global optimization. This straightforward yet powerful multi-particle, zero-order optimization method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Massimo Fornasier , Lukang Sun

Particle swarm optimization comes under lot of changes after James Kennedy and Russell Eberhart first proposes the idea in 1995. The changes has been done mainly on Inertia parameters in velocity updating equation so that the convergence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Rajesh Misra , Kumar S. Ray

We calibrate parameters of neural networks that model forces in interaction dynamics with the help of the Consensus-based global optimization method (CBO). We state the general framework of interaction particle systems driven by neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Simone Göttlich , Claudia Totzeck

Many real-world problems are dynamic optimization problems. In this case, the optima in the environment change dynamically. Therefore, traditional optimization algorithms disable to track and find optima. In this paper, a new multi-swarm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Somayeh Nabizadeh , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammd Reza Meybodi