scholarly journals An Adaptive Cauchy Differential Evolution Algorithm for Global Numerical Optimization

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tae Jong Choi ◽  
Chang Wook Ahn ◽  
Jinung An
Keyword(s):  
Differential Evolution ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Differential Evolution Algorithm ◽  
Cauchy Distribution ◽  
Parameter Control ◽  
Control Parameters ◽  
Adaptive Parameter ◽  
De Algorithm ◽  
Parameter Values ◽  
Adaptive Parameter Control

Adaptation of control parameters, such as scaling factor (F), crossover rate (CR), and population size (NP), appropriately is one of the major problems of Differential Evolution (DE) literature. Well-designed adaptive or self-adaptive parameter control method can highly improve the performance of DE. Although there are many suggestions for adapting the control parameters, it is still a challenging task to properly adapt the control parameters for problem. In this paper, we present an adaptive parameter control DE algorithm. In the proposed algorithm, each individual has its own control parameters. The control parameters of each individual are adapted based on the average parameter value of successfully evolved individuals’ parameter values by using the Cauchy distribution. Through this, the control parameters of each individual are assigned either near the average parameter value or far from that of the average parameter value which might be better parameter value for next generation. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is more robust than the standard DE algorithm and several state-of-the-art adaptive DE algorithms in solving various unimodal and multimodal problems.

scholarly journals An Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm Based on Adaptive Parameter

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhehuang Huang ◽  
Yidong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Differential Evolution ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Differential Evolution Algorithm ◽  
Function Optimization ◽  
Control Parameters ◽  
Adaptive Parameter ◽  
De Algorithm ◽  
Evolution Stage ◽  
Evolution Algorithm ◽  
Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm

The differential evolution (DE) algorithm is a heuristic global optimization technique based on population which is easy to understand, simple to implement, reliable, and fast. The evolutionary parameters directly influence the performance of differential evolution algorithm. The adjustment of control parameters is a global behavior and has no general research theory to control the parameters in the evolution process at present. In this paper, we propose an adaptive parameter adjustment method which can dynamically adjust control parameters according to the evolution stage. The experiments on high dimensional function optimization showed that the improved algorithm has more powerful global exploration ability and faster convergence speed.

USING AN IMPROVED BEE MEMORY DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION ALGORITHM FOR PARAMETER ESTIMATION TO SIMULATE BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAYS

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (01) ◽  
pp. 101-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHUII KHIM CHONG ◽  
MOHD SABERI MOHAMAD ◽  
SAFAAI DERIS ◽  
MOHD SHAHIR SHAMSIR ◽  
LIAN EN CHAI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Differential Evolution ◽  
Differential Evolution Algorithm ◽  
Estimation Algorithm ◽  
Convergence Time ◽  
Unknown Parameters ◽  
Estimation Algorithms ◽  
Bee Colony ◽  
De Algorithm ◽  
Cell Cycle Pathway ◽  
Parameter Values

When analyzing a metabolic pathway in a mathematical model, it is important that the essential parameters are estimated correctly. However, this process often faces few problems like when the number of unknown parameters increase, trapping of data in the local minima, repeated exposure to bad results during the search process and occurrence of noisy data. Thus, this paper intends to present an improved bee memory differential evolution (IBMDE) algorithm to solve the mentioned problems. This is a hybrid algorithm that combines the differential evolution (DE) algorithm, the Kalman filter, artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, and a memory feature. The aspartate and threonine biosynthesis pathway, and cell cycle pathway are the metabolic pathways used in this paper. For three production simulation pathways, the IBMDE managed to robustly produce the estimated optimal kinetic parameter values with significantly reduced errors. Besides, it also demonstrated faster convergence time compared to the Nelder–Mead (NM), simulated annealing (SA), the genetic algorithm (GA) and DE, respectively. Most importantly, the kinetic parameters that were generated by the IBMDE have improved the production rates of desired metabolites better than other estimation algorithms. Meanwhile, the results proved that the IBMDE is a reliable estimation algorithm.

scholarly journals Effect of Strategy Adaptation on Differential Evolution in Presence and Absence of Parameter Adaptation: An Investigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepak Dawar ◽  
Simone A. Ludwig
Keyword(s):  
Differential Evolution ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Control Parameters ◽  
Parameter Adaptation ◽  
Strategy Adaptation ◽  
Adaptive Parameter ◽  
De Algorithm ◽  
Mutation Strategy ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
The Impact

AbstractDifferential Evolution (DE) is a simple, yet highly competitive real parameter optimizer in the family of evolutionary algorithms. A significant contribution of its robust performance is attributed to its control parameters, and mutation strategy employed, proper settings of which, generally lead to good solutions. Finding the best parameters for a given problem through the trial and error method is time consuming, and sometimes impractical. This calls for the development of adaptive parameter control mechanisms. In this work, we investigate the impact and efficacy of adapting mutation strategies with or without adapting the control parameters, and report the plausibility of this scheme. Backed with empirical evidence from this and previous works, we first build a case for strategy adaptation in the presence as well as in the absence of parameter adaptation. Afterwards, we propose a new mutation strategy, and an adaptive variant SA-SHADE which is based on a recently proposed self-adaptive memory based variant of Differential evolution, SHADE. We report the performance of SA-SHADE on 28 benchmark functions of varying complexity, and compare it with the classic DE algorithm (DE/Rand/1/bin), and other state-of-the-art adaptive DE variants including CoDE, EPSDE, JADE, and SHADE itself. Our results show that adaptation of mutation strategy improves the performance of DE in both presence, and absence of control parameter adaptation, and should thus be employed frequently.

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