Evolution window
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Short description: Narrow band of mutation step size that is conducive to significant evolutionary progress
It was observed in evolution strategies that significant progress toward the fitness/objective function's optimum, generally, can only 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 (for example through log-normal mutations)
- Cumulative Step Size Adaptation (CSA)
On simple functions all of them have been empirically shown to keep the step size within the evolution window.
See also
- Bionics
- Cybernetics
- Evolutionary Algorithm
- Evolution strategy
- Optimization (mathematics)
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.
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