Self-adaptive surrogate-assisted covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy

  • Authors:
  • Ilya Loshchilov;Marc Schoenauer;Michele Sebag

  • Affiliations:
  • TAO, INRIA Saclay, Orsay, France;TAO, INRIA Saclay, Orsay, France;CNRS, Universite Paris Sud, Orsay, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel mechanism to adapt surrogate-assisted population-based algorithms. This mechanism is applied to ACM-ES, a recently proposed surrogate-assisted variant of CMA-ES. The resulting algorithm, s*ACM-ES, adjusts online the lifelength of the current surrogate model (the number of CMA-ES generations before learning a new surrogate) and the surrogate hyper-parameters. Both heuristics significantly improve the quality of the surrogate model, yielding a significant speed-up of s*ACM-ES compared to the ACM-ES and CMA-ES baselines. The empirical validation of s*ACM-ES on the BBOB-2012 noiseless testbed demonstrates the efficiency and the scalability w.r.t the problem dimension and the population size of the proposed approach, that reaches new best results on some of the benchmark problems.