Summary

This repository contains the configurable CMA-ES experiments code that uses the Modular EA framework. The framework is available separately as ModEA.

Most experiments are programmed in the main.py file, while the configurable CMA-ES setup is defined in EvolvingES.py.

References

• Evolving the Structure of Evolution Strategies. Sander van Rijn, Hao Wang, Matthijs van Leeuwen, Thomas Bäck. IEEE SSCI December 6-9 2016, Athens, Greece.
• Algorithm Configuration Data Mining for CMA Evolution Strategies. Sander van Rijn, Hao Wang, Bas van Stein, Thomas Bäck. GECCO July 15-19 2017, Berlin, Germany. -- Analysis code is published here.
• Towards an Adaptive CMA-ES Configurator. Sander van Rijn, Carola Doerr, Thomas Bäck. PPSN XV September 8-12 2018, Coimbra, Portugal.