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PPSN
2010
Springer
15 years 7 days ago
A Natural Evolution Strategy for Multi-objective Optimization
Abstract. The recently introduced family of natural evolution strategies (NES), a novel stochastic descent method employing the natural gradient, is providing a more principled alt...
Tobias Glasmachers, Tom Schaul, Jürgen Schmid...
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GECCO
2010
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Exponential natural evolution strategies
The family of natural evolution strategies (NES) offers a principled approach to real-valued evolutionary optimization by following the natural gradient of the expected fitness....
Tobias Glasmachers, Tom Schaul, Yi Sun, Daan Wiers...
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ICML
2000
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Reinforcement Learning in POMDP's via Direct Gradient Ascent
This paper discusses theoretical and experimental aspects of gradient-based approaches to the direct optimization of policy performance in controlled ??? ?s. We introduce ??? ?, a...
Jonathan Baxter, Peter L. Bartlett
CEC
2008
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Natural Evolution Strategies
— This paper presents Natural Evolution Strategies (NES), a novel algorithm for performing real-valued ‘black box’ function optimization: optimizing an unknown objective func...
Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul, Jan Peters, Jürgen...
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JMLR
2006
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15 years 1 months ago
Policy Gradient in Continuous Time
Policy search is a method for approximately solving an optimal control problem by performing a parametric optimization search in a given class of parameterized policies. In order ...
Rémi Munos