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New MSC-CMA-ES method enhances multimodal search with structure-aware restarts

Researchers have developed a new optimization strategy called MSC-CMA-ES, designed to improve the performance of the CMA-ES algorithm in multimodal search scenarios. This method introduces structure-aware restarts by partitioning search spaces into basins of attraction and seeding restarts within these basins. Evaluations on various benchmark suites indicate that MSC-CMA-ES excels on composition functions, demonstrating significantly higher coverage than other algorithms, though it shows a trade-off between landscape discovery and deep-target coverage on basic functions. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.NE (Neural & Evolutionary) TIER_1 English(EN) · Dimitar Pilev ·

    MSC-CMA-ES: Structure-Aware Restarts for CMA-ES via Cyclic Nearest-Better Basin Discovery

    CMA-ES is, per run, a local optimizer; multimodal search relies on restart strategies such as IPOP and BIPOP, which draw every restart uniformly and reuse no information from previous evaluations. Multi-Start Clustering CMA-ES (MSC-CMA-ES) makes restarts structure-aware: in alter…