LSHADE with semi-parameter adaptation hybrid with CMA-ES for solving CEC 2017 benchmark problems

Abstract

To improve the optimization performance of LSHADE algorithm, an alternative adaptation approach for the selection of control parameters is proposed. The proposed algorithm, named LSHADE-SPA, uses a new semi-parameter adaptation approach to effectively adapt the values of the scaling factor of the Differential evolution algorithm. The proposed approach consists of two different settings for two control parameters F and Cr. The benefit of this approach is to prove that the semi-adaptive algorithm is better than pure random algorithm or fully adaptive or self-adaptive algorithm. To enhance the performance of our algorithm, we also introduced a hybridization framework named LSHADE-SPACMA between LSHADE-SPA and a modified version of CMA-ES. The modified version of CMA-ES undergoes the crossover operation to improve the exploration capability of the proposed framework. In LSHADE-SPACMA both algorithms will work simultaneously on the same population, but more populations will be assigned gradually to the better performance algorithm. In order to verify and analyze the performance of both LSHADE-SPA and LSHADE-SPACMA, Numerical experiments on a set of 30 test problems from the CEC2017 benchmark for 10, 30, 50 and 100 dimensions, including a comparison with LSHADE algorithm are executed. Experimental results indicate that in terms of robustness, stability, and quality of the solution obtained, of both LSHADE-SPA and LSHADE-SPACMA are better than LSHADE algorithm, especially as the dimension increases.