On the Prolonged Exploration of Distance Based Parameter Adaptation in SHADE

Abstract

In this paper, a prolonged exploration ability of distance based parameter adaptation is subject to a test via clustering analysis of the population in Success-History based Adaptive Differential Evolution (SHADE). The comparative study is done on the CEC 2015 benchmark set in two dimensional settings – 10D and 30D. It is shown, that the exploration phase of distance based adaptation in SHADE (Db_SHADE) lasts for more generations and therefore avoids the premature convergence into local optima.