Abstract:Probabilistic model-based evolutionary algorithms are promising for black-box optimization. Specifically, the adaptive stochastic natural gradient (ASNG) adaptively updates its learning rate, a typical hyperparameter in probabilistic model-based evolutionary algorithms, thereby realizing efficient and robust optimization. Although weight parameters are common hyperparameters, with the increasing demand for parallel evaluation of time-consuming tasks, it remains unclear how to set suitable weights for larger population sizes. In this paper, we propose Weight Adaptation ASNG (WA-ASNG), which incorporates a weight adaptation mechanism into ASNG. We calculated the estimated signal of the update direction from the accumulations of the natural gradient. Then, to maximize the signal, WA-ASNG adaptively updates its weight parameters by a gradient ascent over the optimization. While the learning rate adaptation plays a role in satisfying a sufficient condition for monotonic improvement of the expected objective value, the mechanism of weight adaptation is intended to maximize this improvement. The experimental results demonstrate that WA-ASNG outperforms PBIL and ASNG across various settings with population sizes ranging from 25 to 100 for binary optimization problems. Furthermore, WA-ASNG can perform efficiently in the presence of strong noise. Our code is available at this https URL .
From: Shinichi Shirakawa [view email]
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