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On the Impact of Active Covariance Matrix Adaptation in the CMA-ES With Mirrored Mutations and Small Initial Population Size on the Noiseless BBOB Testbed

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Mirrored mutations as well as active covariance matrix adaptation are two techniques that have been introduced into the well-known CMA-ES algorithm for numerical optimization. Here, we investigate the impact of active covariance matrix adaptation in the IPOP-CMA-ES with mirrored mutation and a small initial population size. Active covariance matrix adaptation improves the performance on 8 of the 24 benchmark functions of the noiseless BBOB test bed. The effect is the largest on the ill-conditioned functions with the largest improvement on the discus function where the expected runtime is more than halved. On the other hand, no statistically significant adverse effects can be observed.
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hal-00746121 , version 1 (27-10-2012)

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Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen. On the Impact of Active Covariance Matrix Adaptation in the CMA-ES With Mirrored Mutations and Small Initial Population Size on the Noiseless BBOB Testbed. GECCO Companion '12, Jul 2012, Philadelphia, PA, United States. pp.291-296, ⟨10.1145/2330784.2330826⟩. ⟨hal-00746121⟩
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