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most citedMarkov Chain Analysis of Cumulative Step-size Adaptation on a Linear Constrained Problem

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cs.LG2011★ 11 cited

Injecting External Solutions Into CMA-ES

Nikolaus Hansen

This report considers how to inject external candidate solutions into the CMA-ES algorithm. The injected solutions might stem from a gradient or a Newton step, a surrogate model op…

math.OC2011★ 205 cited

Information-Geometric Optimization Algorithms: A Unifying Picture via Invariance Principles

Yann Ollivier, Ludovic Arnold, Anne Auger +1

We present a canonical way to turn any smooth parametric family of probability distributions on an arbitrary search space into a continuous-time black-box optimization method o…