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PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. The recently introduced family of natural evolution strategies (NES), a novel stochastic descent method employing the natural gradient, is providing a more principled alt...
GECCO
2010
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2010
Springer
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....
ICML
2000
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2000
IEEE
This paper discusses theoretical and experimental aspects of gradient-based approaches to the direct optimization of policy performance in controlled ??? ?s. We introduce ??? ?, a...
CEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
— This paper presents Natural Evolution Strategies (NES), a novel algorithm for performing real-valued ‘black box’ function optimization: optimizing an unknown objective func...
JMLR
2006
13 years 10 months ago
2006
Policy search is a method for approximately solving an optimal control problem by performing a parametric optimization search in a given class of parameterized policies. In order ...