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Steady-State Selection and Efficient Covariance Matrix Update in the Multi-objective CMA-ES

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Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO 2007)

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The multi-objective covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (MO-CMA-ES) combines a mutation operator that adapts its search distribution to the underlying optimization problem with multi-criteria selection. Here, a generational and two steady-state selection schemes for the MO-CMA-ES are compared. Further, a recently proposed method for computationally efficient adaptation of the search distribution is evaluated in the context of the MO-CMA-ES.

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Igel, C., Suttorp, T., Hansen, N. (2007). Steady-State Selection and Efficient Covariance Matrix Update in the Multi-objective CMA-ES. In: Obayashi, S., Deb, K., Poloni, C., Hiroyasu, T., Murata, T. (eds) Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization. EMO 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70928-2_16

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