Modified L-SHADE for Single Objective Real-Parameter Optimization

In this paper we address single objective real parameter optimization by using differential evolution (DE). L-SHADE is a well-known DE with success history-based adaptation and linear population size reduction. We propose a modified L-SHADE (mL-SHADE), in which three modifications are made: (1) removal of the terminal value, (2) addition of polynomial mutation, and (3) proposal of a memory perturbation mechanism. Performance of the proposed mL-SHADE is verified by using ten benchmark functions in the CEC2019 100-Digit Challenge. The results show that mL-SHADE achieves a higher score than seven state-of-the-art adaptive evolutionary algorithms.