Mutative sigma-self-adaptation can beat cumulative step size adaptation when using weighted recombination.

Hans-Georg Beyer Alexander Melkozerov

Published in: GECCO (2008)

Keyphrases

step size
evolutionary programming
cost function
convergence rate
convergence speed
adaptive systems
steepest descent method
faster convergence
adaptive filter
stochastic gradient descent
gradient method
line search
hessian matrix
variable step size
mutation operator
quantization step
differential evolution