A population entropy based adaptation strategy for differential evolution
Yanyun Zhang, Guangming Dai, Mingcheng Zuo, Lei Peng, Maocai Wang, Zhengquan Liu · Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion · 2019
We introduce a new enhanced algorithm with a population entropy based population adaptation strategy under the framework of SHADE (PE-SHADE). The distribution state of the population is characterized, and then the population size is adapted with a population increasing strategy and a population reduction strategy. Experimental results on CEC2014 statistically support the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.