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...
Crowding is a technique used in genetic algorithms to preserve diversity in the population and to prevent premature convergence to local optima. It consists of pairing each offsp...
The Hypercube-based NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (HyperNEAT) approach demonstrated that the pattern of weights across the connectivity of an artificial neural network ...
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has been in practice for more than 10 years now and has gained wide popularity in various optimization tasks. In the context to single objective ...
Adaptive Operator Selection (AOS) turns the impacts of the applications of variation operators into Operator Selection through a Credit Assignment mechanism. However, most Credit ...