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Improved slime mould algorithm with multi-strategy fusion
Zhongrui QIU, Hong MIAO, Chengbi ZENG
Journal of Computer Applications    2023, 43 (3): 812-819.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2022020243
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Aiming at the problems of easily falling into local optimum, slow convergence and low solution accuracy of standard Slime Mould Algorithm (SMA), an Improved Slime Mould Algorithm with Multi-Strategy fusion (MSISMA) was proposed. Firstly, Brownian motion and Levy flight were introduced to enhance the search ability of the algorithm. Secondly, according to different stages of the algorithm, the location update formula of the slime mould was improved to increase the convergence speed and accuracy of the algorithm. Thirdly, the Interval Adaptative Opposition-Based Learning (IAOBL) strategy was adopted to generate the reverse population, with which the diversity and quality of the population were improved, as a result, the convergence speed of the algorithm was improved. Finally, a convergence stagnation monitoring strategy was introduced, which would make the algorithm jump out of the local optimum by re-initializing the positions of some slime mould individuals. With 23 test functions selected,the proposed MSISMA was tested and compared with Equilibrium Slime Mould Algorithm (ESMA), Slime Mould Algorithm combined to Adaptive Guided Differential Evolution Algorithm (SMA-AGDE), SMA, Marine Predators Algorithm (MPA) and Equilibrium Optimizer (EO). Moreover, the Wilcoxon rank-sum test was performed on the running results of all algorithms. Compared with the above algorithms, MSISMA achieves the best average value on 19 test functions and the best standard deviation on 12 test functions, and has the optimization accuracy improved by 23.39% to 55.97% on average. Experimental results show that the convergence speed, solution accuracy and robustness of MSISMA are significantly better.

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