Methods to balance the exploration and exploitation in differential evolution from different scales: A survey

Y Zhang, G Chen, L Cheng, Q Wang, Q Li - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Inspired by the evolutionary process in nature, Differential Evolution (DE) has been widely
concerned and used as a numerical global optimizer for decades of years, since its …

An adaptive differential evolution with combined strategy for global numerical optimization

G Sun, B Yang, Z Yang, G Xu - Soft Computing, 2020 - Springer
Differential evolution (DE) is a simple yet powerful evolutionary algorithm for numerical
optimization. However, the performance of DE significantly relies on its mutation operator …

Differential evolution with dynamic combination based mutation operator and two-level parameter adaptation strategy

L Deng, C Li, Y Lan, G Sun, C Shang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Differential evolution (DE) is a simple yet effective algorithm for numerical optimization, and
its performance significantly depends on mutation operator and control parameters …

An adaptive mutation strategy correction framework for differential evolution

L Deng, Y Qin, C Li, L Zhang - Neural Computing and Applications, 2023 - Springer
Differential evolution (DE) is an efficient global optimization algorithm. However, due to its
random properties, some individuals may mutate in the direction of deviating from the …

Hip-DE: Historical population based mutation strategy in differential evolution with parameter adaptive mechanism

Z Meng, C Yang - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Differential Evolution (DE) was a powerful population-based evolutionary algorithm for
global optimization, and it achieved great success in both evolutionary computation …

Differential evolution with evolutionary scale adaptation

SX Zhang, XR Hu, SY Zheng - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2024 - Elsevier
The performance of differential evolution (DE) algorithm heavily depends on the
evolutionary scale, which is controlled by the generation operations including mutation …

HARD-DE: Hierarchical archive based mutation strategy with depth information of evolution for the enhancement of differential evolution on numerical optimization

Z Meng, JS Pan - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Differential evolution is a famous and effective branch of evolutionary computation, which
aims at tackling complex optimization problems. There are two aspects significantly affecting …

Differential Evolution: A Survey on Their Operators and Variants

E Reyes-Davila, EH Haro, A Casas-Ordaz… - … Methods in Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm is one of the most popular and studied
approaches in Evolutionary Computation (EC). Its simple but efficient design, such as its …

Differential Evolution with Group-Based Competitive Control Parameter Setting for Numerical Optimization

M Tian, Y Gao, X He, Q Zhang, Y Meng - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Differential evolution (DE) is one of the most popular and widely used optimizers among the
community of evolutionary computation. Despite numerous works having been conducted …

Toward explicit control between exploration and exploitation in evolutionary algorithms: A case study of differential evolution

Z Cai, X Yang, MC Zhou, ZH Zhan, S Gao - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Exploration and exploitation are two cornerstones of evolutionary algorithms. An appropriate
balance between exploration and exploitation can drive a search process toward global …