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cs.AI2012★ 3 cited
Efficient Natural Evolution Strategies
Yi Sun, Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul +1
Efficient Natural Evolution Strategies (eNES) is a novel alternative to conventional evolutionary algorithms, using the natural gradient to adapt the mutation distribution. Unlike…
cs.AI2011★ 7 cited
A Linear Time Natural Evolution Strategy for Non-Separable Functions
Yi Sun, Faustino Gomez, Tom Schaul +1
We present a novel Natural Evolution Strategy (NES) variant, the Rank-One NES (R1-NES), which uses a low rank approximation of the search distribution covariance matrix. The algori…
cs.AI2011★ 26 cited
Planning to Be Surprised: Optimal Bayesian Exploration in Dynamic Environments
Yi Sun, Faustino Gomez, Juergen Schmidhuber
To maximize its success, an AGI typically needs to explore its initially unknown world. Is there an optimal way of doing so? Here we derive an affirmative answer for a broad class…