Step size adaptation in evolution strategies using reinforcement learning

Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2002

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 151-156

  Müller, Sibylle D ^a   Schraudolph, Nicol N ^a   Koumoutsakos, Petros D ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

ADAPTATION PARAMETERS; ADAPTIVE SCHEME; EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; STEP SIZE; STEP-SIZE ADAPTATIONS; TEST CASE; TEST FUNCTIONS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 36348992992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2002.1006225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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