Mirrored variants of the (1,4)-CMA-ES compared on the noiseless BBOB-2010 testbed
Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen · 2010
Derandomization by means of mirrored samples has been recently introduced to enhance the performances of (1,λ)-Evolution-Strategies (ESs) with the aim of designing fast and robust stochastic local search algorithms. This paper compares on the BBOB-2010 noiseless benchmark testbed two variants of the (1,4)-CMA-ES where the mirrored samples are used. Independent restarts are conducted up to a total budget of 104 D function evaluations, where D is the dimension of the search space.