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09/18/2020
Global Linear Convergence of Evolution Strategies on More Than Smooth Strongly Convex Functions
Evolution strategies (ESs) are zero-order stochastic black-box optimizat...
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04/18/2019
Uncrowded Hypervolume Improvement: COMO-CMA-ES and the Sofomore framework
We present a framework to build a multiobjective algorithm from single-o...
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03/15/2019
COCO: The Large Scale Black-Box Optimization Benchmarking (bbob-largescale) Test Suite
The bbob-largescale test suite, containing 24 single-objective functions...
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12/27/2018
A discrete version of CMA-ES
Modern machine learning uses more and more advanced optimization techniq...
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12/01/2018
On Bi-Objective convex-quadratic problems
In this paper we analyze theoretical properties of bi-objective convex-q...
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02/09/2018
Drift Theory in Continuous Search Spaces: Expected Hitting Time of the (1+1)-ES with 1/5 Success Rule
This paper explores the use of the standard approach for proving runtime...
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05/11/2016
COCO: Performance Assessment
We present an any-time performance assessment for benchmarking numerical...
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05/05/2016
Biobjective Performance Assessment with the COCO Platform
This document details the rationales behind assessing the performance of...
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04/01/2016
COCO: The Bi-objective Black Box Optimization Benchmarking (bbob-biobj) Test Suite
The bbob-biobj test suite contains 55 bi-objective functions in continuo...
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03/29/2016
COCO: A Platform for Comparing Continuous Optimizers in a Black-Box Setting
COCO is a platform for Comparing Continuous Optimizers in a black-box se...
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03/29/2016
COCO: The Experimental Procedure
We present a budget-free experimental setup and procedure for benchmarki...
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04/11/2014
Markov Chain Analysis of Evolution Strategies on a Linear Constraint Optimization Problem
This paper analyses a (1,λ)-Evolution Strategy, a randomised comparison-...
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12/01/2012
Cumulative Step-size Adaptation on Linear Functions
The CSA-ES is an Evolution Strategy with Cumulative Step size Adaptation...
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06/21/2012