arxivcs.NE2026-06-26
DE-2LS: Differential Evolution with Lightweight Late Local Search for Constrained Numerical Optimization
Dikshit Chauhan, Anupam Trivedi
Constrained single-objective numerical optimization requires a careful balance among feasibility, objective convergence, and computational efficiency under a fixed function-evaluation budget. This paper proposes DE-2LS, a late-stage, locally search-enhanced variant of differentia…