Abstract
Cooperative co-evolution (CC) is a powerful evolutionary computation framework for solving large scale global optimization (LSGO) problems via the strategy of divide-and-conquer, but its efficiency highly relies on the decomposition result. Existing decomposition algorithms either cannot obtain correct decomposition results or require a large number of fitness evaluations (FEs). To alleviate these limitations, this paper proposes a new decomposition algorithm named historical interdependency based differential grouping (HIDG). HIDG detects interdependency from the perspective of vectors. By utilizing historical interdependency information, it develops a novel criterion which can directly deduce the interdependencies among some vectors without consuming extra FEs. Coupled with an existing vector-based decomposition framework, HIDG further significantly reduces the total number of FEs for decomposition. Experiments on two sets of LSGO benchmark functions verified the effectiveness and efficiency of HIDG.
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