Talk:Initialisation
From Adaptive Population based Simplex
Specific initialisation?
For PSO and DE, it has been proved that, contrarily to the intuition, the pure random initialisation is as good as more "regular" ones:
Omran, M. G. H.; al Sharhan, S.; Salman, A. & Clerc, M. - Studying the effect of using low-discrepancy sequences to initialize population-based optimization algorithms, Computational Optimization and Applications, 2013, 1-24
However, it may be not the same for APS. In particular, as the method is based on simplexes of $D+1$ points, it is perfectly possible that an initialisation method using such simplexes, as "different" as possible, would be better.
