Bibliography

Publications of the year

Doctoral Dissertations and Habilitation Theses

• 1O. Ait Elhara.
  
  Stochastic Black-Box Optimization and Benchmarking in Large Dimensions, Université Paris-Saclay, July 2017.
  
  https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01615829

Articles in International Peer-Reviewed Journals

• 2A. Chotard, A. Auger.
  
  Verifiable Conditions for the Irreducibility and Aperiodicity of Markov Chains by Analyzing Underlying Deterministic Models, in: Bernoulli, 2017, https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01644, forthcoming.
  
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01222222
• 3Y. Ollivier, L. Arnold, A. Auger, N. Hansen.
  
  Information-Geometric Optimization Algorithms: A Unifying Picture via Invariance Principles, in: Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2017, vol. 18, n^o 18, pp. 1-65.
  
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01515898

International Conferences with Proceedings

• 4Y. Akimoto, A. Auger, N. Hansen.
  
  Quality Gain Analysis of the Weighted Recombination Evolution Strategy on General Convex Quadratic Functions, in: Proceedings of the 14th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, FOGA, Copenhagen, Denmark, January 2017, pp. 111-126. [ DOI : 10.1145/3040718.3040720 ]
  
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01516326
• 5A. Atamna, A. Auger, N. Hansen.
  
  Linearly Convergent Evolution Strategies via Augmented Lagrangian Constraint Handling, in: The 14th ACM/SIGEVO Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA XIV), Copenhagen, Denmark, January 2017, pp. 149 - 161. [ DOI : 10.1145/3040718.3040732 ]
  
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01455379
• 6D. Brockhoff, A. Auger, N. Hansen, T. Tušar.
  
  Quantitative Performance Assessment of Multiobjective Optimizers: The Average Runtime Attainment Function, in: Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO 2017), Münster, Germany, LNCS, March 2017, vol. 10173, pp. 103-119. [ DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-54157-0_8 ]
  
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01591151
• 7D. M. Nguyen, N. Hansen.
  
  Benchmarking CMAES-APOP on the BBOB noiseless testbed, in: Proceedings of the 2017 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (GECCO '17 Companion), Berlin, Germany, July 2017, pp. 1756 - 1763. [ DOI : 10.1145/2908812.2908864 ]
  
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01591423
• 8T. Tušar, N. Hansen, D. Brockhoff.
  
  Anytime Benchmarking of Budget-Dependent Algorithms with the COCO Platform, in: IS 2017 - International multiconference Information Society, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2017, pp. 1-4.
  
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01629087

Other Publications

• 9Y. Akimoto, A. Auger, N. Hansen.
  
  Quality Gain Analysis of the Weighted Recombination Evolution Strategy on General Convex Quadratic Functions, December 2017, Submitted to Journal of Theoretical Computer Science.
  
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01662568
• 10A. Atamna, A. Auger, N. Hansen.
  
  On Invariance and Linear Convergence of Evolution Strategies with Augmented Lagrangian Constraint Handling, December 2017, working paper or preprint.
  
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01660728

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  Projection-based restricted covariance matrix adaptation for high dimension, in: Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, ACM, 2016, pp. 197–204.
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  Linearly Convergent Evolution Strategies via Augmented Lagrangian Constraint Handling, in: Foundation of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA), 2017.
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  Linear Convergence of Comparison-based Step-size Adaptive Randomized Search via Stability of Markov Chains, in: SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2016, vol. 26, n^o 3, pp. 1589-1624.
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  Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy for Multidisciplinary Optimization of Expendable Launcher Families, in: 13th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis Optimization Conference, Proceedings, 2010.
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  Calibrating a global three-dimensional biogeochemical ocean model (MOPS-1.0), in: Geoscientific Model Development, 2017, vol. 10, n^o 1, 127 p.
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  Evolution strategies as a scalable alternative to reinforcement learning, in: arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.03864, 2017.
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  Long-term model predictive control of gene expression at the population and single-cell levels, in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, vol. 109, n^o 35, pp. 14271–14276.