“…Global optimization techniques inspired by swarm intelligence have found increasing applications in geophysical inverse problems due to their ability to find global solutions by using simple tuning parameters, flexible applicability and easy implementation. Some of the popular swarm intelligencebased global optimization techniques include, but are not limited to, particle swarm Optimization (PSO) (Kennedy and Eberhart, 1995;Shaw and Srivastava, 2007;Naudet et al, 2008;Song et al, 2012;Pace et al, 2021), ant colony optimization (Yuan et al, 2009;Srivastava et al, 2014), grey wolf algorithm (GWO) (Mirjalili et al, 2014;Song et al, 2015;Agarwal et al, 2018;Vashisth and Shekar, 2019;Sharma et al, 2021) and whale optimization algorithm (Mirjalili and Lewis, 2016;Vashisth et al, 2018;. A couple of recently proposed swarm intelligence-based global optimization techniques include African vultures optimization (Abdollahzadeh et al, 2021a) and artificial gorilla troops optimization (Abdollahzadeh et al, 2021b) that mimic foraging and navigation behaviour of African vultures and social intelligence of gorilla troops, respectively.…”