Generalized evolutionary programming with Lévy-type mutation
Abstract
A new generalized evolutionary programming with Lévy-type mutation is proposed. The Lévy-type distribution is know to reproduce Gaussian, Cauchy, and Student's t-distributions and characterized by a power-law fat-tail. This new evolutionary programming is tested for five standard test functions. The average performance of the new algorithm with Lévy-type mutation for hard optimization problems is superior to the original evolutionary programming with Gaussian mutation.
- Publication:
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Computer Physics Communications
- Pub Date:
- August 2002
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- Bibcode:
- 2002CoPhC.147..729I