Title
Differential evolution with enhanced diversity maintenance
Abstract
Differential evolution (de) is a popular population-based meta-heuristic that has been successfully used in complex optimization problems. Premature convergence is one of the most important drawbacks that affects its performance. In this paper, a novel replacement strategy that combines the use of an elite population and a mechanism to preserve diversity explicitly is devised. The proposal is integrated with de to generate the de with enhanced diversity maintenance. The main novelty is the use of a dynamic balance between exploration and exploitation to adapt the optimizer to the requirements of the different optimization stages. Experimental validation is carried out with several benchmark tests proposed in competitions of the well-known IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. Top-rank algorithms of each competition, as well as other diversity-based schemes, are used to illustrate the usefulness of the proposal. The new method avoids premature convergence and significantly improves further the results obtained by state-of-the-art algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s11590-019-01454-5
Optimization Letters
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Diversity, Differential evolution, Premature convergence
Journal
14
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1862-4472
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joel Chacón Castillo131.74
Carlos Segura2506.53