Rastrigin function
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In mathematical optimization, the Rastrigin function is a non-convex function used as a performance test problem for optimization algorithms. It is a typical example of non-linear multimodal function. It was first proposed by Rastrigin [1] as a 2-dimensional function and has been generalized by Mühlenbein et al.[2] Finding the minimum of this function is a fairly difficult problem due to its large search space and its large number of local minima.
It is defined by:
where and . It has a global minimum at where .