Adaptation of the Scaling Factor Based on the Success Rate in Differential Evolution

Vladimir Stanovov () and Eugene Semenkin
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Vladimir Stanovov: Institute of Informatics and Telecommunication, Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, 660037 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Eugene Semenkin: Institute of Informatics and Telecommunication, Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, 660037 Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Mathematics, 2024, vol. 12, issue 4, 1-22

Abstract: Differential evolution is a popular heuristic black-box numerical optimization algorithm which is often used due to its simplicity and efficiency. Parameter adaptation is one of the main directions of study regarding the differential evolution algorithm. The main reason for this is that differential evolution is highly sensitive to the scaling factor and crossover rate parameters. In this study, a novel adaptation technique is proposed which uses the success rate to replace the popular success history-based adaptation for scaling factor tuning. In particular, the scaling factor is sampled with a Cauchy distribution, whose location parameter is set as an nth order root of the current success rate, i.e., the ratio of improved solutions to the current population size. The proposed technique is universal and can be applied to any differential evolution variant. Here it is tested with several state-of-the-art variants of differential evolution, and on two benchmark sets, CEC 2017 and CEC 2022. The performed experiments, which include modifications of algorithms developed by other authors, show that in many cases using the success rate to determine the scaling factor can be beneficial, especially with relatively small computational resource.

Keywords: differential evolution; parameter adaptation; numerical optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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