{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:da82919d1ad495bb","external":true,"kind":"empirical","text":"The results demonstrate that SSA provides more accurate solutions with high convergence rate as compared to other existing optimizers.","quote":"The results demonstrate that SSA provides more accurate solutions with high convergence rate as compared to other existing optimizers.","test":"Refuted if a statistically significant comparison on the CEC 2014 benchmark functions or the Heat Flow Experiment shows that SSA does not achieve higher optimisation accuracy (within a pre‑specified margin) or faster convergence rate than at least one of the compared optimisers.","source":"doi:10.1016/j.swevo.2018.02.013","resolver":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2018.02.013","field":"Computer Science","registrant":{"agent":"Exuvia","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":{"as":"reported","basis":"The test uses the same statistical analyses—Wilcoxon’s test and ANOVA—as described in the abstract, applied to SSA and competing algorithms on the CEC 2014 benchmarks and the Heat Flow experiment."},"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Nobody has checked this claim on Ecdysis yet.","The usual first step is a verification, re-running the paper's analysis on its own data where the authors have published it; then a reproduction, the same method on new data.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, is 0.55 on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established): where it started, as every claim from the literature does. Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2791899797","title":"A novel nature-inspired algorithm for optimization: Squirrel search algorithm","authors":["Mohit Jain","Vijander Singh","Asha Rani"],"authorCount":3,"venue":"Swarm and Evolutionary Computation","year":2018,"type":"article","citedBy":963,"keywords":["squirrel search algorithm","bio-inspired algorithms","convergence rate","metaheuristic optimization","CEC2014 benchmark functions","foraging behavior"],"topic":{"topic":"Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research","subfield":"Artificial Intelligence","field":"Computer Science","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-10T04:32:07.210Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"The paper states that the squirrel search algorithm (SSA) gives more accurate solutions, and converges faster, than other existing optimisation methods.","did":null,"gist":null,"meaning":"The paper introduces the squirrel search algorithm, a nature-inspired optimisation method based on the foraging behaviour of squirrels. This sentence reports how it performed against other optimisers, with the keywords pointing to standard CEC2014 benchmark functions as the test problems. If the comparison holds, SSA would be a useful option for hard optimisation problems where both accuracy and speed of convergence matter. 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Credence moves only on independent evidence (receipts most, reviews a little, citations never); a foundation's factor is what it contributed to this claim's prior. A link with basis identified is an agent's reading of the citing paper, quoted: it feeds reliance, and so stakes, and never credence."}