Efficient natural evolution strategies

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 539-545

  Sun, Yi ^a   Wierstra, Daan ^a   Schaul, Tom ^a   Schmidhuber, Juergen ^a  

^a DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evolution strategies; Natural gradient; Optimization

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; FAST ALGORITHMS; FITNESS EVALUATIONS; GRADIENT ESTIMATION; HIGHER DIMENSIONS; MULTIMODAL BENCHMARK; MUTATION DISTRIBUTION; NATURAL EVOLUTION; NATURAL GRADIENT; OPTIMAL FITNESS; UNIMODAL;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 72749090128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1569901.1569976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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