방법 비교

	차등 진화	유전 알고리즘
분야	최적화	최적화
계열	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
기원 연도	1997	1975
창시자	Rainer Storn & Kenneth Price	John Henry Holland
유형	Population-based stochastic metaheuristic	Population-based metaheuristic
원전	Storn, R. & Price, K. (1997). Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for Global Optimization over Continuous Spaces. Journal of Global Optimization, 11(4), 341–359.	Holland, J.H. (1975). Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. University of Michigan Press.
별칭	DE algorithm, Diferansiyel Evrim (DE), DE optimization	GA, evolutionary algorithm, Genetik Algoritma — Evrimsel Optimizasyon
관련	5	5
요약	Differential Evolution (DE), introduced by Rainer Storn and Kenneth Price in 1997, is a population-based stochastic optimisation algorithm designed for continuous parameter spaces. It generates candidate solutions by combining vector differences between existing population members, making it a powerful and parameter-lean alternative to Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimisation when the search landscape is non-convex, multimodal, or poorly suited to gradient-based methods.	A genetic algorithm (GA) is a population-based metaheuristic optimization method introduced by John Henry Holland (1975) that mimics the principles of natural selection. It maintains a population of candidate solutions and iteratively improves them through selection, crossover, and mutation operators, making it especially powerful on discontinuous, non-convex, and multi-modal search spaces where classical gradient-based methods fail.