Lilian Weng • 9/5/2019

Evolution Strategies

This technical article explores Evolution Strategies (ES), a class of black-box optimization algorithms within the evolutionary algorithms family. It contrasts ES with gradient-based methods like SGD, explains the core concepts of ES including the Simple Gaussian ES, and discusses its application in optimizing deep reinforcement learning models where gradient computation is difficult.

0 comments

#Evolution Strategies #Evolutionary Algorithms #Stochastic Gradient Descent