1. An Improved Wild Horse Optimizer Incorporating Dual Weight Starvation Strategy and Randomized Convergence Factor.
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Xiao-Rui Zhao, Xiao-Hong Chen, and Jie-Sheng Wang
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METAHEURISTIC algorithms , *GREY Wolf Optimizer algorithm , *WILD horses , *ANIMAL behavior , *ANIMAL sexual behavior - Abstract
Wild Horse Optimizer (WHO) is a swarm-based meta-heuristic algorithm inspired by animal behavior, which mainly imitates the decent behavior, grazing behavior, mating behavior and leadership dominance behavior of wild horses in nature in their lives for finding the optimal. The location update method of WHO is prone to low convergence accuracy, poor global search ability and local optimum problems. With the aim of balancing global searchability and exploitation performance, an improved WHO that incorporates a dual weight starvation strategy and a random convergence factor is proposed. In the exploration stage, the starvation strategy is inspired by the starvation characteristics of animals, so that the algorithm can continuously adjust the stallion position according to the starvation level and automatically adjust the distance between the stallion and the wild horse according to the changing adaptation value, which improves the global search performance and can jump out of the local optimum at the same time. In the exploitation stage, a convergence factor is added to help it jump out of the local optimum and continue to search for a better solution. The simulation experiment on 23 benchmark functions is to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm being compared with Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA), Moth-Flame Optimization (MFO), Rat Swarm Optimizer (RSO), Multi-Verse Optimizer (MVO), Gray Wolf Optimizer (GWO) and Artificial Bee Swarm Optimizer (ALO). Finally two real engineering design problems were solved. The simulation results show that the proposed SD3WHO has a strong seeking capability and optimization performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024