Bound-constrained single-objective numerical optimisation remains a key benchmark for assessing the robustness and efficiency of evolutionary algorithms. This report documents RDEx-SOP, an exploitation-biased success-history differential evolution variant used in the IEEE CEC 2025 numerical optimisation competition (C06 special session). RDEx-SOP combines success-history parameter adaptation, an exploitation-biased hybrid branch, and lightweight local perturbations to balance fast convergence and final solution quality under a strict evaluation budget. We evaluate RDEx-SOP on the official CEC 2025 SOP benchmark with the U-score framework (Speed and Accuracy categories). Experimental results show that RDEx-SOP achieves strong overall performance and statistically competitive final outcomes across the 29 benchmark functions.
@article{arxiv.2603.27089,
title = {RDEx-SOP: Exploitation-Biased Reconstructed Differential Evolution for Fixed-Budget Bound-Constrained Single-Objective Optimization},
author = {Sichen Tao and Yifei Yang and Ruihan Zhao and Kaiyu Wang and Sicheng Liu and Shangce Gao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.27089},
year = {2026}
}