A Hybrid Pathfinder Optimizer for Unconstrained and Constrained Optimization Problems

Table 1

Benchmark functions.

Name	Function	Limits
Sphere ()
Rosenbrock ()
Quadric ()
Sinproblem ()
	Sumsquares ()
Zakharov ()
Powers ()
Schwefel2.22 ()
Rastrigin ()
Schwefel ()
Ackley ()
	Griewank ()
Rot_rastrigin ()
Rot_schwefel ()
Rot_ackley ()
Rot_griewank ()
Composition Function 1 (n = 5, rotated) ()
Composition Function 2 (n = 3, unrotated) ()
Composition Function 3 (n = 3, rotated) ()
Composition Function 4 (n = 3, rotated) ()
Composition Function 5 (n = 3, rotated) ()
Composition Function 6 (n = 5, rotated) ()
Composition Function 7 (n = 5, rotated) ()
Composition Function 8 (n = 5, rotated) ()