<title>Abstract</title> This paper proposes a Multi-strategy Improved Hunger Games Search (MHGS) algorithm to address the inherent limitations of the original HGS algorithm, including imbalanced exploration-exploitation capabilities, insufficient population diversity, and premature convergence. The main contributions feature four synergistic innovation mechanisms: (1) A phased position update framework dynamically coordinates global exploration and local exploitation through three distinct search phases; (2) An en…