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The Comprehensive Learning Fungal Growth Optimizer (CLFGO) enhances fungal colony simulations by improving search diversity and preventing premature convergence. This novel metaheuristic shows superior performance in complex optimization problems.

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  • Optimization Algorithms
  • Nature-Inspired Computing

Background:

  • The Fungal Growth Optimizer (FGO) is a metaheuristic inspired by fungal colony behavior.
  • FGO can suffer from reduced search diversity during its exploitation phase due to limited peer or global-best information.
  • This limitation is particularly pronounced in high-dimensional and complex optimization landscapes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce an enhanced variant of the FGO, termed the Comprehensive Learning Fungal Growth Optimizer (CLFGO).
  • To address the diversity loss and premature convergence issues observed in the original FGO.
  • To improve the performance of FGO on challenging, high-dimensional, multimodal, and composition optimization problems.

Main Methods:

  • Integration of a conditionally activated Comprehensive Learning (CL) strategy into the FGO framework.
  • Development of a mechanism where stagnating candidate solutions construct dimension-specific learning exemplars.
  • Each dimension learns from the personal best of a different peer, extending the FGO's learning model.

Main Results:

  • CLFGO demonstrated improved population diversity and reduced risk of premature convergence.
  • Evaluated on 29 CEC2017 benchmark functions (30 dimensions), CLFGO achieved the lowest mean error on 21 functions.
  • CLFGO obtained a superior Friedman average rank of 1.5517 compared to nine other metaheuristics.
  • Application to a reservoir production optimization problem yielded a mean Net Present Value of 9.97×10^8 USD, outperforming competitors.

Conclusions:

  • CLFGO effectively enhances the FGO by incorporating comprehensive learning to maintain diversity.
  • The proposed algorithm is well-suited for complex, high-dimensional optimization landscapes where traditional FGO struggles.
  • CLFGO shows significant potential for real-world applications, as evidenced by its success in reservoir production optimization.