Efficient multi-population outpost fruit fly-driven optimizers: Framework and advances in support vector machines

The original fruit fly algorithm (FOA) in simple structure is easy to understand, but it has a slow convergence rate and tends to be trapped in the local optimal solutions. In order to improve the convergence rate and efficacy of FOA, two new mechanisms are integrated with the exploratory and exploitative strategies of the original FOA: the outpost mechanism and the multi-population mechanism. The outpost mechanism consists of two parts: greedy...