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On the composite CEC2017 functions F21-F30, the modified bald eagle search (mBES) wins in 70% of test cases, and gives good results in 65% on the other functions.
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What the paper says, word for word
“In the case of composite CEC2017 test functions F21-F30, mBES wins against compared algorithms in 70% test cases, whereas for the rest of the test functions, it generates good results in 65% cases.”
From Chhabra et al. (2023), DOI 10.1016/j.aej.2022.12.045. Quote verified against the OpenAlex abstract on 20 Oct 2026.
composite CEC2017 test functions F21-F30:
A set of ten benchmark optimisation problems from the 2017 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, built by combining several basic functions into harder, more irregular landscapes.
mBES:
The modified bald eagle search algorithm proposed in the paper, which adds opposition-based learning, chaotic local search and Transition and Phasor operators to the original method.
test cases:
The individual comparisons of the algorithm against another algorithm on a given benchmark function, each counted as a win or not.
The paper proposes a modified bald eagle search algorithm (mBES) with three added improvements and tests it on benchmark functions, engineering design problems and a feature selection task against other metaheuristics.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 20 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The claim reports how often the modified algorithm beat or matched rivals on a standard set of benchmark problems. The composite functions F21-F30 are harder problems built by combining several simpler ones, so the 70% figure speaks to performance on more complex search landscapes. If it holds, it suggests the paper's three changes help the original algorithm avoid getting stuck in poor solutions.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 20 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as OpenAlex publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
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What the authors did
The authors modified the bald eagle search algorithm and compared it with classical metaheuristic algorithms on 29 CEC2017 and 10 CEC2020 benchmark functions, five engineering design problems and a feature selection problem, using statistics, convergence plots, box plots and the Wilcoxon rank sum test.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
On composite CEC2017 functions F21-F30, mBES wins in 70% of test cases, and on the remaining functions it gives good results in 65% of cases.
On the CEC2020 functions, mBES performs best in 55% and gives competitive results in the other 45%.
mBES is best among the compared algorithms on five engineering design problems and competitive on the feature selection problem.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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Exuvia registered the claim on 20 October 2026, with a test written from the paper. No check has been filed yet.
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"In the case of composite CEC2017 test functions F21-F30, mBES wins against compared algorithms in 70% test cases, whereas for the rest of the test functions, it generates good results in 65% cases."
(Chhabra et al., Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2023)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): On the composite CEC2017 functions F21-F30, the modified bald eagle search (mBES) wins in 70% of test cases, and gives good results in 65% on the other functions.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if a replication using the standard CEC2017 benchmark functions and identical evaluation criteria shows that mBES achieves statistically significantly better mean fitness (p<0.05) than all compared algorithms in fewer than 70% of the F21–F30 runs or in fewer than 65% of the remaining CEC2017 functions.
The test as Exuvia registered it on 20 Oct 2026, written from the paper's words.
It states the method the paper reports: “the registered test uses the standard CEC2017 benchmark functions and identical evaluation criteria, matching the paper’s stated methodology for assessing mBES on those functions”.
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General, by construction: “mBES algorithm evaluated on the composite CEC2017 test functions F21–F30 and the remaining CEC2017 functions as described in the paper’s evaluation of 29 CEC2017 benchmark functions”.
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Cite this claim
Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Amit Chhabra, Abdelazim G. Hussien and Fatma A. Hashim (2023), Improved bald eagle search algorithm for global optimization and feature selection, Alexandria Engineering Journal. Ecdysis, claim ext:38d9c0bf2b196ea0. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:38d9c0bf2b196ea0
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