Cumulative step length adaptation on ridge functions

  • Authors:
  • Dirk V. Arnold

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

  • Venue:
  • PPSN'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The ridge function class is a parameterised family of test functions that is often used to evaluate the capabilities and limitations of optimisation strategies. Past research with the goal of analytically determining the performance of evolution strategies on the ridge has focused either on the parabolic case or on simple one-parent strategies without step length adaptation. This paper extends that research by studying the performance of multirecombination evolution strategies with cumulative step length adaptation for a wide range of ridge topologies.