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Weight Adaptation for Improving Parallel Performance of Adaptive Stochastic Natural Gradient
Yutaro Yamada, Kento Uchida, Shinichi Shirakawa
Probabilistic model-based evolutionary algorithms are promising for black-box optimization. Specifically, the adaptive stochastic natural gradient (ASNG) adaptively updates its lea…
Convergence Analysis of Evolution Strategies for Mixed-Integer Optimization
Ryoki Hamano, Kento Uchida, Shinichi Shirakawa
Mixed-integer extensions of evolution strategies (ES) that discretize selected coordinates of sampled continuous vectors often impose a lower bound on the standard deviation of int…
Adaptive Stochastic Natural Gradient Method for Safe Optimization on Binary Space
Kento Uchida, Ryoki Hamano, Masahiro Nomura +1
Optimization problems in real-world applications across the medical and engineering domains often involve potential risks when evaluating candidate solutions. Safe optimization aim…
CatCMA with Margin for Single- and Multi-Objective Mixed-Variable Black-Box Optimization
Ryoki Hamano, Masahiro Nomura, Shota Saito +2
This study focuses on mixed-variable black-box optimization (MV-BBO), addressing continuous, integer, and categorical variables. Many real-world MV-BBO problems involve dependencie…
CatCMA : Stochastic Optimization for Mixed-Category Problems
Ryoki Hamano, Shota Saito, Masahiro Nomura +2
Black-box optimization problems often require simultaneously optimizing different types of variables, such as continuous, integer, and categorical variables. Unlike integer variabl…
Warm Starting of CMA-ES for Contextual Optimization Problems
Yuta Sekino, Kento Uchida, Shinichi Shirakawa
Several practical applications of evolutionary computation possess objective functions that receive the design variables and externally given parameters. Such problems are termed c…