Evolution window
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It was observed in Evolution Strategies that significant progress toward the fitness/objective function's optimum, generally, only can happen in a narrow band of the mutation step size σ. That narrow band is called evolution window.
There are three well-known methods to adapt the mutation step size σ in evolution strategies:
- (1/5-th) success rule
- self-adaptation
- cumulative step size adaptation
On simple functions all of them have been empirically shown to keep the step size within the evolution window.
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[edit] References
- H.-G. Beyer. Toward a Theory of Evolution Strategies: Self-Adaptation. Evolutionary Computation, 3(3), 311-347.
- Ingo Rechenberg: Evolutionsstrategie '94. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog 1994.
