The bFSS intended to cope with premature convergence.
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The step-size control effectively prevents premature convergence yet allowing fast convergence to an optimum.
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Nevertheless, smaller N _ c and N _ { L } might lead to premature convergence.
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This step is crucial, since it prevents oscillations, premature convergence, and undesired effects stemming from a given parameterization.
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Premature convergence is when a population has converged to a single solution, but that solution is not as high of quality as expected, i . e . the population has gotten'stuck '.
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This has been found to help prevent premature convergence at so called " Hamming walls ", in which too many simultaneous mutations ( or crossover events ) must occur in order to change the chromosome to a better solution.
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This school of thought has been prevalent since the inception of PSO . This school of thought contends that the PSO algorithm and its parameters must be chosen so as to properly balance between exploration and exploitation to avoid premature convergence to a local optimum yet still ensure a good rate of below.