Evolution strategies: basic introduction

  • Authors:

  • Thomas Bäck

  • Affiliations:

  • Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This tutorial gives a basic introduction to evolution strategies, a class of evolutionary algorithms. Key features such as mutation, recombination and selection operators are explained, and specifically the concept of self-adaptation of strategy parameters is introduced. All algorithmic concepts are explained to a level of detail such that an implementation of basic evolution strategies is possible. Some guidelines for utilization as well as some application examples are given.