Multivariant Optimization Algorithm with Absorption for Multimodal Optimization
Multivariant Optimization Algorithm (MOA) is a newly proposed algorithm and its multi-group property make it a perfect choice for multimodal optimization. In this paper, an absorption mechanism was introduced into MOA to remove the redundant search information that stored in the structure and we named the proposed algorithm as the Absorption Multivariant Optimization Algorithm (AMOA). With this mechanism, more search information will be captured and the search information will be shared more effectively. The proposed algorithm is tested on nine benchmark functions to compare the performance with standard MOA under the same condition. The experimental results suggest that the improved algorithm can keep high success rate as the number of global optima increase and the output result would be more stable.