Masahiro Nomura

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icon company CyberAgent / Tokyo Institute of Technology icon location Tokyo, Japan icon location Research Scientist at CyberAgent.

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why is the Optuna CMA-ES sampler better than my custom cmaes code?

Thank you for the interesting result. The reason may be that the problem is multimodal. Basically, (1+1)-CMA is a more *local* method, so it is fast for unimodal (i.e., easy)...

why is the Optuna CMA-ES sampler better than my custom cmaes code?

Awesome. Please let me know when the article is published.

why is the Optuna CMA-ES sampler better than my custom cmaes code?

Hi @FlorinAndrei Our paper, now available on arXiv, cites your article as a noteworthy application of CMA-ES with Margin (Ref. [6] in the paper). Thank you. Masahiro Nomura, Masashi Shibata....