Benchmarking a BI-population CMA-ES on the BBOB-2009 function testbed

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

Volumn 2009-January, Issue , 2009, Pages 2389-2395

  Hansen, Nikolaus ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Black box optimization; CMA ES; Evolutionary computation

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CALCULATIONS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; TESTBEDS;

BLACK-BOX OPTIMIZATION; CMA-ES; D-FUNCTION; MULTISTART; POPULATION SIZES; RESTART STRATEGY; SEARCH SPACE DIMENSION; SMALL POPULATION;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 85009984129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1570256.1570333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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