Should differential evolution be tested on multi-modal problems?

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Should differential evolution be tested on multi-modal problems? #22

Open MichaelClerx opened 3 years ago

MichaelClerx commented 3 years ago

I thought the cross-over between different chains was meant to help DE be somewhat OK at multimodal distributions? (Provided the chains don't all find the same mode)

@ben18785 @rcw5890 ?