Niching in evolution strategies
Ofer M. Shir, Thomas Bäck · 2005
EAs have the tendency to converge quickly into a single solution. Niching methods, the extension of EAs to address this issue, have been investigated up to date mainly within the field of Genetic Algorithms (GAs). In our study we investigate the basis for niching methods within Evolution Strategies (ES), and propose the first ES niching method. Results show that this method can reliably find and maintain multiple niches even for high-dimensional problems.