TY - GEN
T1 - Benchmarking GNN-CMA-ES on the BBOB noiseless testbed
AU - Faury, Louis
AU - Calauzènes, Clément
AU - Fercoq, Olivier
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/7/13
Y1 - 2019/7/13
N2 - We evaluate in this paper the GNN-CMA-ES algorithm on the BBOB noiseless testbed. The GNN-CMA-ES algorithm was recently proposed as a plug-in extension to CMA-ES, introducing the possibility to train flexible search distributions, in contrast to standard search distributions (such as the multivariate Gaussian). By comparing GNN-CMA-ES and CMA-ES, we show the benefits of this extension on some unimodal functions as well as on a variety of multimodal functions. We also identify a family of unimodal functions where GNN-CMA-ES can degrade the performances of CMA-ES and discuss the possible reasons behind this behavior.
AB - We evaluate in this paper the GNN-CMA-ES algorithm on the BBOB noiseless testbed. The GNN-CMA-ES algorithm was recently proposed as a plug-in extension to CMA-ES, introducing the possibility to train flexible search distributions, in contrast to standard search distributions (such as the multivariate Gaussian). By comparing GNN-CMA-ES and CMA-ES, we show the benefits of this extension on some unimodal functions as well as on a variety of multimodal functions. We also identify a family of unimodal functions where GNN-CMA-ES can degrade the performances of CMA-ES and discuss the possible reasons behind this behavior.
KW - Benchmarking
KW - Black-box optimization
KW - Evolutionary Strategies
KW - Generative Neural Networks
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85070628621
U2 - 10.1145/3319619.3326856
DO - 10.1145/3319619.3326856
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85070628621
T3 - GECCO 2019 Companion - Proceedings of the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion
SP - 1928
EP - 1936
BT - GECCO 2019 Companion - Proceedings of the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2019
Y2 - 13 July 2019 through 17 July 2019
ER -