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The Griewank function is a typical multimodal benchmark function, composed of a quadratic convex function and an oscillatory nonconvex function. The comparative importance of Griewank’s two major parts alters in different dimensions. Different from most test functions, an unusual phenomenon appears when optimizing the Griewank function. The Griewank function first becomes more difficult and then becomes easier to optimize with the increase of dimension. In this study, from the methodology perspective, this phenomenon is explained by structural, mathematical, and quantum analyses. Furthermore, frequency transformation and amplitude transformation are implemented on the Griewank function to make a generalization. The multi-scale quantum harmonic oscillator algorithm (MQHOA) with quantum tunnel effect is used to verify its characteristics. Experimental results indicate that the Griewank function’s two-scale structure is the main reason for this phenomenon. The quantum tunneling mechanism mentioned in this paper is an effective method which can be generalized to analyze the generation and variation of solutions for numerous swarm optimization algorithms.
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Project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Huai’an, China (No. HAB201828), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (No. 2019NYB22), and the Open Foundation of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Media Design and Software Technology, China (Nos. 19ST0204 and 18ST0203)
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Huang, Y., Li, Jp. & Wang, P. Unusual phenomenon of optimizing the Griewank function with the increase of dimension. Frontiers Inf Technol Electronic Eng 20, 1344–1360 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.1900155
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