Abstract: Evolution strategies are a class of general optimisation algorithms which are applicable to functions that are multimodal, non-differentiable, or even discontinuous. Although recombination operators have been introduced into evolution strategies, their primary search operator is still mutation. Classical evolution strategies rely on Gaussian mutations. A new mutation operator based on the Cauchy distribution is proposed in this paper. It is shown empirically that the new evolution strategy based on Cauchy mutation outperforms the classical evolution strategy on most of the 23 benchmark problems tested in this paper. These results, along with those obtained by fast evolutionary programming
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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