trunghng/evolution_strategies

Evolution Strategy algorithms

List of algorithms:

1. CMA-ES
   • References:
     [1] Nikolaus Hansen. The CMA Evolution Strategy: A Tutorial.
     [2] Nikolaus Hansen, Youhei Akimoto & Petr Baudis. CMA-ES/pycma on Github. Zenodo, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.2559634, February 2019.
     [3] Nikolaus Hansen, Stefan Kern. Evaluating the CMA Evolution Strategy on Multimodal Test Functions. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN VIII. PPSN 2004.
2. NES
   • References:
     [1] Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul, Jan Peters, Jürgen Schmidhuber. Natural Evolution Strategies. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2008.
     [2] Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul, Tobias Glasmachers, Yi Sun, Jürgen Schmidhuber. Natural Evolution Strategies. arXiv:1106.4487, 2011.
     [3] Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul, Tobias Glasmachers, Yi Sun, Jan Peters, Jürgen Schmidhuber. Natural Evolution Strategies. Journal of Machine Learning Research 15 (2014).
3. OpenAI's ES
   • References:
     [1] Tim Salimans, Jonathan Ho, Xi Chen, Szymon Sidor, Ilya Sutskever. Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning. arXiv:1703.03864 (2017).