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Follow my recent publications about this theme

I believe that  those papers can help ....

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305650202_On_the_Harmony_Search_Using_QuaternionsOn_the_Harmony_Search_Using_Quaternions

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285403911_Social-Spider_Optimization-based_Support_Vector_Machines_applied_for_energy_theft_detection

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303358601_A_Hyperheuristic_Approach_for_Unsupervised_Land-Cover_Classification

Conference Paper On the Harmony Search Using QuaternionsOn the Harmony Search...

Article Social-Spider Optimization-based Support Vector Machines app...

Article A Hyperheuristic Approach for Unsupervised Land-Cover Classification

1 Supervised learning

2 Unsupervised learning

   2.1 Artificial neural network

    2.2 Association rule learning

    2.3 Hierarchical clustering

    2.4 Cluster analysis

    2.5 Outlier Detection

3 Semi-supervised learning

4 Reinforcement learning

5 Deep learning

Prey predator algorithm is also one of the recent algorithm and a more general swarm intelligence where some of well known algorithms fall as its special case. It also has some strong properties like tuning exploration and exploitation easily.

 Hi,

Optimal power flow problems can be tackled by using CMAES.

Depending of your fitness ( if there are a lot of plateau or neutral area) then some method favoring the exploration like Differential Evolution.

If you have to deal with noisy optimization when multiple evaluation of the same candidate solutions return different value, because of some random noise. Then you should take a look at bayesian optimization 

Please see the following publications may be helpful for you.....

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307865831_Modified_Chaotic_Bat_Algorithm_Based_Counter_Propagation_Neural_Network_for_Uncertain_Nonlinear_Discrete_Time_System

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295091583_FCPN_Approach_for_Uncertain_Nonlinear_Dynamical_System_with_Unknown_Disturbance

Article Modified Chaotic Bat Algorithm Based Counter Propagation Neu...

Article FCPN Approach for Uncertain Nonlinear Dynamical System with ...

Two fresh algorithms are:

- Bipropagation

- Border Pairs Method

They have many advantages over Backpropagation

Chapter Optimization for multi layer perceptron: Without the gradient

TLBO

JAYA

Crow search optimizer

moth swarm algorithm (MSA)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378779616303765