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The point of a population‐based optimization is to search for the minimizer or maximizer using a large number of candidate solutions. Having large numbers of identical members of the population defeats the purpose of having a population in the first place. Diversity control algorithms examine the closeness of the solutions and compute a penalty for identical or nearly identical individuals; the penalized fitness is then used in the selection process.