Learning to solve small instances of a problem should help in solving large instances. Unfortunately, most neural network architectures do not exhibit this form of scalability. Our...
The family of natural evolution strategies (NES) offers a principled approach to real-valued evolutionary optimization by following the natural gradient of the expected fitness....
Tobias Glasmachers, Tom Schaul, Yi Sun, Daan Wiers...
— This paper presents Natural Evolution Strategies (NES), a novel algorithm for performing real-valued ‘black box’ function optimization: optimizing an unknown objective func...