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DSD selectively inherits components from the current best solution to preserve useful dimensional information, whereas LI generates a progressively contracted elite-derived candidate when stagnation occurs. DSD-LI-PO is evaluated on CEC2017, six representative functions at 30, 50, and 100 dimensions, ablation variants, and five constrained engineering design problems. On CEC2017, it ranks second overall with an average rank of 1.8966 and records 28\/1\/0 wins\/ties\/losses against PO and 29\/0\/0 against IPO. In the scalability tests, it remains second in all three dimensions, with average ranks of 1.9167, 1.9167, and 1.7500. The complete method ranks first in the ablation study and second in the engineering tests, with feasible solutions in all runs. 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