Evaluation of teaching learning based optimization with focused learning on expensive optimization problems (CEC2017)

Abstract

Teaching learning based optimization (TLBO) simulates the transfer of knowledge in a classroom environment for solving various optimization problems. In the current work, we propose a variant of TLBO which incorporates a focused learning strategy and evaluates its performance on bound constrained single objective computationally expensive problems provided for CEC2017. The proposed variant of TLBO uses the functional evaluations effectively to handle expensive optimization problems and has lower computational complexity.