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A discrete version of CMA-ES

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Date
2018
Publisher city
Paris
Publisher
Preprint Lamsade
Collection title
Preprint Lamsade
Link to item file
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02011531
Dewey
Intelligence artificielle
Sujet
Covariance Matrix Adaptation; Evolution Strategy
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/18927
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Author
Benhamou, Eric
989 Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision [LAMSADE]
Atif, Jamal
989 Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision [LAMSADE]
Laraki, Rida
989 Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision [LAMSADE]
Type
Document de travail / Working paper
Item number of pages
13
Abstract (EN)
Modern machine learning uses more and more advanced optimization techniques to find optimal hyper parameters. Whenever the objective function is non-convex, non continuous and with potentially multiple local minima, standard gradient descent optimization methods fail. A last resource and very different method is to assume that the optimum(s), not necessarily unique, is/are distributed according to a distribution and iteratively to adapt the distribution according to tested points. These strategies originated in the early 1960s, named Evolution Strategy (ES) have culminated with the CMA-ES (Covariance Matrix Adaptation) ES. It relies on a multi variate normal distribution and is supposed to be state of the art for general optimization program. However, it is far from being optimal for discrete variables. In this paper, we extend the method to multivariate binomial correlated distributions. For such a distribution, we show that it shares similar features to the multi variate normal: independence and correlation is equivalent and correlation is efficiently modeled by interaction between different variables. We discuss this distribution in the framework of the exponential family. We prove that the model can estimate not only pairwise interactions among the two variables but also is capable of modeling higher order interactions. This allows creating a version of CMA ES that can accomodate efficiently discrete variables. We provide the corresponding algorithm and conclude.

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