Distance vs. Improvement based parameter adaptation in SHADE

Abstract

This work studied a relationship between optimization qualities of Success-History based Adaptive Differential Evolution algorithm (SHADE) and its self-adaptive parameter strategy. Original SHADE with improvement based adaptation is compared to the SHADE with Distance based parameter adaptation (Db_SHADE) on the basis of the CEC2015 benchmark set for continuous optimization and a novel approach combining both distance and improvement adaptation (DIb_SHADE) is presented and tested as a trade-off between both approaches.