Learning unified mutation operator for differential evolution by natural evolution strategies

H Zhang, J Sun, Z Xu, J Shi - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Differential evolution (DE) is one of the widely studied algorithms in evolutionary
computation. Recently, many adaptive mechanisms have been proposed for DE including …

Learning adaptive differential evolution by natural evolution strategies

H Zhang, J Sun, KC Tan, Z Xu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adaptive parameter control is critical in the design and application of evolutionary algorithm
(EA), so does in differential evolution. In the past decade, many adaptive evolutionary …

Controlling Sequential Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm by Q-Learning [Research Frontier][Research Frontier]

H Zhang, J Sun, T Bäck, Q Zhang… - IEEE Computational …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many state-of-the-art evolutionary algorithms (EAs) can be categorized as sequential hybrid
EAs, in which various EAs are sequentially executed. The timing to switch from one EA to …

A two-stage differential evolution algorithm with mutation strategy combination

X Sun, D Wang, H Kang, Y Shen, Q Chen - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
For most of differential evolution (DE) algorithm variants, premature convergence is still
challenging. The main reason is that the exploration and exploitation are highly coupled in …

Learning to mutate for differential evolution

H Zhang, J Sun, Z Xu - 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adaptive parameter control and mutation operator selection are two important research
avenues in differential evolution (DE). Existing works consider the two avenues …

Variational reinforcement learning for hyper-parameter tuning of adaptive evolutionary algorithm

H Zhang, J Sun, Y Wang, J Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of an evolutionary algorithm (EA) is deeply affected by its control
parameter's setting. It has become a trend in recent studies to treat the control parameter as …

Multi-granularity competition-cooperation optimization algorithm with adaptive parameter configuration

M Gao, X Feng, H Yu, Z Zheng - Applied Intelligence, 2022 - Springer
The intelligent optimization algorithm has the advantage of giving feasible solutions in
polynomial time when solving complex problems in reality. Its performance depends on its …

Learning to select the recombination operator for derivative-free optimization

H Zhang, J Sun, T Bäck, Z Xu - Science China Mathematics, 2024 - Springer
Extensive studies on selecting recombination operators adaptively, namely, adaptive
operator selection (AOS), during the search process of an evolutionary algorithm (EA), have …

A Q-learning Evolutionary Multiobjective Framework for Multiobjective Optimization with Separable and Interacting Variables

H Li, Y Tang, Y Shui, J Sun - 2024 IEEE Congress on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have been proposed for dealing with
various problem difficulties in multiobjective optimization over the past three decades …

A Gradient-based Method for Differential Evolution Parameter Control by Smoothing

H Zhang, J Shi, J Sun, AW Mohamed, Z Xu - Proceedings of the Genetic …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Differential evolution (DE) is one of the most studied algorithms in evolutionary computation.
However, the parameters in DE need to be tuned carefully, which costs much computational …