Differential Evolution - Variants

Variants

Variants of the DE algorithm are continually being developed in an effort to improve optimization performance. Many different schemes for performing crossover and mutation of agents are possible in the basic algorithm given above, see e.g.. More advanced DE variants are also being developed with a popular research trend being to perturb or adapt the DE parameters during optimization, see e.g. Price et al., Liu and Lampinen, Qin and Suganthan, Civicioglu and Brest et al..