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Title: Analysis of Diversity-Preserving Mechanisms for Global Exploration
Type: Journal articleJournal article
Participant(s):
Forfatter:  Friedrich, Tobias
Technical University of Denmark

Forfatter:  Oliveto, Pietro S.
Technical University of Denmark

Forfatter:  Sudholt, Dirk
Technical University of Denmark

Author:  Witt, Carsten (Cwisno: 53388)
Technical University of Denmark
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Abstract: Maintaining diversity is important for the performance of evolutionary algorithms. Diversity-preserving mechanisms can enhance global exploration of the search space and enable crossover to find dissimilar individuals for recombination. We focus on the global exploration capabilities of mutation-based algorithms. Using a simple bimodal test function and rigorous runtime analyses, we compare well-known diversity-preserving mechanisms like deterministic crowding, fitness sharing, and others with a plain algorithm without diversification. We show that diversification is necessary for global exploration, but not all mechanisms succeed in finding both optima efficiently. Our theoretical results are accompanied by additional experiments for different population sizes.
Published: in journal: Evolutionary Computation (ISSN: 1063-6560) (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/evco.2009.17.4.17401), vol: 17, issue: 4, pages: 455-476, 2009
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