Gaussian adaptation revisited - An entropic view on covariance matrix adaptation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6024 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 432-441

  Müller, Christian L ^a   Sbalzarini, Ivo F ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Black Box Optimization; Covariance Matrix Adaptation; Entropy; Evolution Strategy; Gaussian Adaptation

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

BLACK-BOX OPTIMIZATION; CONTINUOUS PROBLEMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX ADAPTATION; COVARIANCE MATRIX ADAPTATION EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; GAUSSIANS; MULTI-VARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

EID: 77952359930     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12239-2_45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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