Promoting diversity in evolutionary optimization: why and how

Promoting diversity is an effective way to prevent premature converge in solving multimodal problems using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Based on the idea of increasing possibility of particles “jump out” of local optima, while keeping the ability ...

Avoiding premature convergence to local optima and rapid convergence towards global optima has been the major concern with evolutionary systems research. In order to avoid premature convergence, sufficient amount of genetic diversity within the evolving ...

Diversity plays a crucial role in evolutionary computation. While diversity has been mainly used to prevent the population of an evolutionary algorithm from premature convergence, the use of evolutionary algorithms to obtain a diverse set of solutions ...