Self-adaptive Differential Evolution Algorithm for Numerical Optimization

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm (SaDE), where the choice of learning strategy and the two control parameters F and CR are not required to be pre-specified. During evolution, the suitable learning strategy and parameter settings are gradually self-adapted according to the learning experience. The performance of the SaDE is reported on the set of 25 benchmark functions provided by CEC2005 special session on real parameter optimization.