2 papers
cs.NE2026
MSC-CMA-ES: Structure-Aware Restarts for CMA-ES via Cyclic Nearest-Better Basin Discovery
Dimitar Nedanovski, Svetoslav Nenov, Dimitar Pilev
CMA-ES behaves, per restart, primarily as a local optimizer; multimodal search relies on restart strategies such as IPOP and BIPOP, which draw every restart uniformly and reuse no…
cs.NE2026
On the Probability of First Success in Differential Evolution: Hazard Identities and Tail Bounds
Dimitar Nedanovski, Svetoslav Nenov, Dimitar Pilev
We study first-hitting times in Differential Evolution (DE) through a conditional hazard frame work. Instead of analyzing convergence via Markov-chain transition kernels or drift a…