To meet the increasing demand for wireless applications requires efficient performance in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multi-input multi-output (MIMO). The existing methods involve applying various optimization techniques to increase the performance of the partial transmit sequence (PTS) and OFDM system to reduce the peak average to power ratio (PAPR). This research proposes prime learning ant lion optimization (PL-ALO) method to reduce the PAPR and bit error rate (BER) of the system. The tournament selection technique is applied to increase the exploitation related to the best fitness agent that improves the PL-ALO model performance. The tournament selection technique randomly performs tournaments among the best fitness search agent in the system. The square-root raised cosine (SRC) precoding and Mu law companding techniques were applied to improve the efficiency of the system. The comparison between discrete cosine transform (DCT) and fast fourier transform (FFT) techniques was carried out in the performance analysis. The DCT-based method has higher efficiency than FFT-based techniques in the system. The PL-ALO method has higher efficiency than existing techniques of particle swarm optimization (PSO)-grey wolf optimization (GWO) and multi-objective mayfly algorithm (MOMA). The average PAPR of selective mapping (SLM) is 8.243, PTS-ant lion optimization (ALO) is 3.962, MAMO is 5.279, PSO-GWO is 5.854, and PL-ALO is 3.099.