Research Article

Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Algorithm for Continuous Space Optimization Based on Multiple Chains Encoding Method of Quantum Bits

Table 2

Comparison of the optimization results on function extremum (10 optimizations).

AlgorithmGoldstein-Price functionShubert function
Optimal resultWorst resultAverage resultConvergence timesAverage times (s)Optimal resultWorst resultAverage resultConvergence resultAverage times (s)

CQIEA 3.1312 3.28523.214205.02059.98289.89379.927004.8763
DCQIEA3.00473.13603.041841.31269.99809.93789.9739 10.7487
TCQIEA3.00703.01523.0070102.26939.99979.96439.9916 61.0335
FCQIEA 3.00003.00593.001610 2.24042101010101.1191