Code in this repository reproduces results presented in my group project for the LSE course ST444 Statistical Computing. The project was on Particle Swarm Optimisation, a gradient-free heuristic optimization algorithm. This repository contains Python implementations of the classical PSO algorithm of Clerc and Kennedy as well of the quantum-behaved PSO variant introduced by Sun et al.

The directory structure for this repository is as follows:

PSO
  |
  |--report 
  |
  |-- code
  |   |-- script...py

The function of each sub-directory is as follows:

• report: contains a pdf of the report as submitted for the course
• code: implementations of PSO and QPSO, as well as functions to test optimisation behaviour

Python >= 3.0.0