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The self-potential method is widely used in environmental and engineering geophysics. Four intelligent optimization algorithms are adopted to design the inversion to interpret self-potential data more accurately and efficiently: simulated annealing, genetic, particle swarm optimization, and ant colony optimization. Using both noise-free and noise-added synthetic data, it is demonstrated that all four intelligent algorithms can perform self-potential data inversion effectively. During the numerical experiments, the model distribution in search space, the relative errors of model parameters, and the elapsed time are recorded to evaluate the performance of the inversion. The results indicate that all the intelligent algorithms have good precision and tolerance to noise. Particle swarm optimization has the fastest convergence during iteration because of its good balanced searching capability between global and local minimisation.
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Foundation item: Project(41574123) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China; Project(2015zzts250) supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China; Project(2013FY110800) supported by the National Basic Research Scientific Program of China
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Cui, Ya., Zhu, Xx., Chen, Zx. et al. Performance evaluation for intelligent optimization algorithms in self-potential data inversion. J. Cent. South Univ. 23, 2659–2668 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-016-3327-2
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