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PSO and multi-funnel landscapes: how cooperation might limit exploration

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Andrew M. Sutton,

Darrell Whitley,

Adele HoweAuthors Info & Claims

GECCO '06: Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Pages 75 - 82

https://doi.org/10.1145/1143997.1144008

Published: 08 July 2006 Publication History

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Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a population-based optimization method in which search points employ a cooperative strategy to move toward one another. In this paper we show that PSO appears to work well on "single-funnel" optimization functions. On more complex optimization problems, PSO tends to converge too quickly and then fail to make further progress. We contend that most benchmarks for PSO have classically been demonstrated on single-funnel functions. However, in practice, optimization tasks are more complex and possess higher problem dimensionality. We present empirical results that support our conjecture that PSO performs well on single-funnel functions but tends to stagnate on more complicated landscapes.

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