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Brain storm optimization (BSO) is a swarm intelligence optimization algorithm which is proven to have practical values in various fields. During these years, many modifications have been facilitated to effectively improve BSO’s search performance. So far, these modifications focus on improving the solution quality by applying different clustering methods and learning strategies, in which the population diversity is often neglected. However, in recent studies, population diversity plays a more significant role in designing optimization algorithm. A population that maintains its diversity in a high level can easily obtain better solutions than the one with low level of diversity. Therefore, this paper proposes a control method that evaluates the population diversity of BSO to improve its performance. Two diversity measures, which are known as distance-based diversity and fitness-based diversity, are implemented to realize the adaptation of algorithm parameters. The new algorithm is called multiple diversity-driven BSO (MDBSO). Its performance is verified by CEC2017 benchmark function suit and a neuron model training task. The results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of MDBSO.