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Differential Evolution (DE) is a highly successful population based global optimisation algorithm, commonly used for solving numerical optimisation problems. However, as the complexity of the objective function increases, the wall-clock…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Dylan Janssen , Wayne Pullan , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

The numerical optimization of continuous functions is a fundamental task in many scientific and engineering domains, ranging from mechanical design to training of artificial intelligence models. Among the most effective and widely used…

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Complex single-objective bounded problems are often difficult to solve. In evolutionary computation methods, since the proposal of differential evolution algorithm in 1997, it has been widely studied and developed due to its simplicity and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sichen Tao , Ruihan Zhao , Kaiyu Wang , Shangce Gao

In this paper, a novel mutation operator of differential evolution algorithm is proposed. A new algorithm called divergence differential evolution algorithm (DDEA) is developed by combining the new mutation operator with divergence operator…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-18 Yifeng Gao , Shuhong Gong , Ge Zhao

Differential Evolution (DE) is a widely used evolutionary algorithm for black-box optimization problems. However, in modern DE implementations, a major challenge lies in the limited population diversity caused by the fixed population size…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Tomofumi Kitamura , Alex Fukunaga

Differential evolution (DE) generally requires parameter control methods (PCMs) for the scale factor and crossover rate. Although a better understanding of PCMs provides a useful clue to designing an efficient DE, their effectiveness is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Ryoji Tanabe

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated their superiority in image classification, and evolutionary computation (EC) methods have recently been surging to automatically design the architectures of CNNs to save the tedious…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Bin Wang , Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

The existing variants of the Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm come with certain limitations, such as poor local search and susceptibility to premature convergence. This study introduces Adaptive Differential Evolution with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Sarit Maitra

Differential Evolution (DE) is quite powerful for real parameter single objective optimization. However, the ability of extending or changing search area when falling into a local optimum is still required to be developed in DE for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Chengjun Li , Yang Li

This work concerns the evolutionary approaches to distributed stochastic black-box optimization, in which each worker can individually solve an approximation of the problem with nature-inspired algorithms. We propose a distributed evolution…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Xiaoyu He , Zibin Zheng , Chuan Chen , Yuren Zhou , Chuan Luo , Qingwei Lin

A decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm with a differential evolution variation operator (MOEA/D-DE) shows high performance on challenging multi-objective problems (MOPs). The DE mutation consists of three key…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Ryoji Tanabe , Hisao Ishibuchi

Energy demand has increased considerably with the growth of world population, increasing the interest in the hydrocarbon reservoir management problem. Companies are concerned with maximizing oil recovery while minimizing capital investment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Grazieli L. C. Carosio , Thomas D. Humphries , Ronald D. Haynes , Colin G. Farquharson

This paper provides a historical analysis of the IEEE CEC Single Objective Optimization competition results (2010-2024). We analyze how benchmark functions shaped winning algorithms, identifying the 2014 introduction of dense rotation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Vojtěch Novák , Tomáš Bezděk , Ivan Zelinka , Swagatam Das , Martin Beseda

Since Differential Evolution (DE) is sensitive to strategy choice, most existing variants pursue performance through adaptive mechanisms or intricate designs. While these approaches focus on adjusting strategies over time, the structural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chenchen Feng , Minyang Chen , Zhuozhao Li , Ran Cheng

Differential evolution (DE) algorithm is recognized as one of the most effective evolutionary algorithms, demonstrating remarkable efficacy in black-box optimization due to its derivative-free nature. Numerous enhancements to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xu Yang , Rui Wang , Kaiwen Li , Ling Wang

Many Differential Evolution (DE) algorithms with various parameter control methods (PCMs) have been proposed. However, previous studies usually considered PCMs to be an integral component of a complex DE algorithm. Thus the characteristics…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Ryoji Tanabe , Alex Fukunaga

Constrained multiobjective optimization problems (CMOPs) are commonly found in real-world applications. CMOP is a complex problem that needs to satisfy a set of equality or inequality constraints. This paper proposes a variant of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Cicero S. R. Mendes , Aluizio F. R. Araújo , Lucas R. C. Farias

Differential evolution (DE) is a population based evolutionary algorithm widely used for solving multidimensional global optimization problems over continuous spaces. However, the design of its operators makes it unsuitable for many…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Ashish Ranjan Hota , Ankit Pat

Grey wolf optimizer (GWO) is a nature-inspired stochastic meta-heuristic of the swarm intelligence field that mimics the hunting behavior of grey wolves. Differential evolution (DE) is a popular stochastic algorithm of the evolutionary…

Differential evolution (DE) is a simple but powerful evolutionary algorithm, which has been widely and successfully used in various areas. In this paper, an event-triggered impulsive control scheme (ETI) is introduced to improve the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Wei Du , Sunney Yung Sun Leung , Yang Tang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos