Anne Auger
Contact
- Address:
- Projet TAO, INRIA Saclay - Ile de France
- LRI, Bat 490 Univ. Paris-Sud
- 91405 Orsay Cedex France
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Education
I first studied in Toulouse and then in Paris. I received the
diploma degree in Mathematics from the University of Paris 6 in 2001,
with a specialisation in Numerical Analysis for my Master. I also
spent one year (1999-2000) preparing the high school teaching diploma
in Mathematics (Agrégation de Mathématiques) at the University Paris
11 (Orsay). I obtained the diploma in 2000. I pursued a
Ph.D. (2001-2004) under the supervision of C.Le Bris and
M.Schoenauer. I obtained the Dr. Mathematics degree from the
University Paris 6 in 2004. Afterwards, I worked for two years
(2004-2006) as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH (in Zurich) in the
Computational Laboratory (CoLab). Since October 1, 2006, I have been
back to France where I am working as a permanent researcher at
INRIA (CR2) in the TAO project.
Research Interests
- Single-Objective Optimization:
-Evolutionary Algorithms, Adaptive Search algorithms (in particular CMA-ES), Derivative Free Optimization, Optimization in presence of uncertainties, Benchmarking
- Multi-Objective Optimization
- Theoretical aspects of Evolutionary Algorithms
-Related to Monte Carlo Markov Chains algorithms
Recent Activities
Publications
Copyright notice: below you can find preprints of my papers. Most of them have been published and the copyrights have been transferred to the respective publishers. Therefore, these papers cannot be duplicated for commercial purposes.
Journals and Refereed Conference Articles
2009
- M. Jebalia, A. Auger, N. Hansen,
Log-linear convergence and divergence of the scale-invariant (1+1)-ES in noisy environments
Algorithmica (accepted)
- C. Furtlehner, J.M. Lasgouttes, A. Auger,
Learning multiple belief propagation fixed points for real time inference
Physica A (in press)
- A. Auger, J. Bader, D. Brockhoff, and E. Zitzler,
Articulating User Preferences in Many-Objective Problems by Sampling the Weighted Hypervolume.
In G. Raidl et al., editors, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), pages 555-562. ACM, 2009.
(paper in pdf)
- A. Auger, J. Bader, D. Brockhoff, and E. Zitzler,
Investigating and Exploiting the Bias of the Weighted Hypervolume to Articulate User Preferences.
In G. Raidl et al., editors, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO 2009), pages 563-570. ACM, 2009.
(paper in pdf)
- Auger, A., N. Hansen N., J.M. Peres Zerpa, R. Ros and M. Schoenauer,
Empirical comparisons of several derivative free optimization algorithms.
In Acte du 9ime colloque national en calcul des structures, Giens, 2009.
(paper in pdf)
- A. Auger, J. Bader, D. Brockhoff, and E. Zitzler,
Theory of the Hypervolume Indicator: Optimal mu-Distributions and the Choice of the Reference Point.
In Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA 2009), pages 87-102. ACM, 2009.
(paper in pdf)
2008
- A. Auger, O. Teytaud,
Continuous Lunches are free plus the design of optimal optimization
algorithms.
Algorithmica, 2008 (accepted).
- M. Jebalia, A. Auger,
On multiplicative noise models for stochastic search
In International Conference on
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature PPSN X, (PPSN 2008) Proceedings, Berlin:
Springer.
2007
- M. Jebalia, A. Auger, P. Liardet,
Log-linear Convergence and Optimal Bounds for the $(1+1)$-ES
Proceedings of the Evolution Artificielle Conference, (EA 2007) Springer.
- M. Jebalia, A. Auger, M. Schoenauer, F.
James, M. Postel,
Identification of the Isotherm Function in Chromatography Using CMA-ES
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007).
- O. Teytaud, A. Auger,
On the adaptation of noise level for stochastic optimization
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007).
- A. Auger, O. Teytaud,
Continuous Lunches are Free!
Proceedings of the
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), ACM
Press.
2006
- A. Auger, P. Chatelain, P. Koumoutsakos,
R-Leaping: Accelerating the stochastic simulation algorithm by reaction leaps.
J. Chem. Phys., 125, 084103 (13 pages), 2006.
- N. Hansen, F. Gemperle, A. Auger, P. Koumoutsakos,
When Do
Heavy-Tail Distributions Help?
In Ninth International Conference on
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature PPSN IX, Proceedings, Berlin:
Springer (2006).
- A. Auger, N. Hansen,
Reconsidering the Progress Rate Theory
for Evolution Strategies in Finite Dimensions.
Proceedings of the
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2006), ACM
Press, in press.
2005
- A. Auger,
Convergence results for (1,λ)-SA-ES using the theory of φ-irreducible
Markov chains.
Theoretical Computer Science, 334(1-3):35--69, 2005.
- A. Auger, N. Hansen,
A Restart CMA Evolution Strategy With Increasing Population Size.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2005.
- A. Auger, N. Hansen.
Performance Evaluation of an Advanced Local Search Evolutionary Algorithm.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2005
- A. Auger, M. Schoenauer, O. Teytaud,
Local and Global Order 3/2 Convergence of a Surrogate Evolutionary Algorithm.
Proceedings of GECCO 2005, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference.
2002 -- 2004
- Anne Auger, Marc Schoenauer and Nicolas Vanhaecke,
LS-CMA-ES: a Second-order algorithm for Covariance Matrix Adaptation.
In Eighth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature PPSN VIII, Proceedings, pp. 182-191, Berlin, Springer, 2004.
(Best Student Paper Award)
- Miguel Nicolau, Anne Auger and Conor Ryan,
Functional dependency and degeneracy: detailed analysis of the GAuGE
system.
In Evolution Artificielle, Springer Verlag, LNCS 2936 2003.
- A. Auger, C. Le Bris, M. Schoenauer,
Dimension-independent
convergence rate for non-isotropic (1,λ)-ES.
In Erick Cantu-Paz et al. editor, volume 2723, pp. 512-524.
Springer Verlag, 2003.
- M.Schoenauer, A. Auger, A. Ben Haj Yedder,
Overview and Software Guide of Evolutionary Algorithms; Case Study in
Quantum Control.
CRM Proc. Lecture Notes, 2003.
- A. Auger, A. Ben Haj Yedder,
E. Cancès, C. Le Bris, C.M. Dion, A.Keller,
and O. Atabek.
Optimal laser control of molecular systems: methodology and results.
Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences,
12(9):1281-1315, 2002.
- C. M. Dion, A. Auger, A. Ben Haj Yedder,
E. Cancès, A. Keller, C. Le Bris, and
O. Atabek.
Numerical optimization of laser fields to control molecular
orientation. (505 Ko)
Phys. Rev. A, 66, 063401 , 2002.
Other contributions and reports
- Auger, A,
Benchmarking the (1+1)-ES with One-Fifth Success Rule on the BBOB-2009
noisy Function Testbed.
Workshop Proceedings of the GECCO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, ACM. (GECCO 2009). ACM, 2009.
(paper in pdf)
- Auger, A,
Benchmarking the (1+1) Evolution Strategy with One-Fifth Success Rule on the BBOB-2009 Function Testbed.
Workshop Proceedings of the GECCO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference, ACM. (GECCO 2009). ACM, 2009.
(paper in pdf)
- Auger, A and N. Hansen,
Benchmarking the (1+1)-CMA-ES on the BBOB-2009 Function Testbed.
Workshop Proceedings of the GECCO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, ACM. (GECCO 2009). ACM, 2009.
(paper in pdf)
- Auger, A and N. Hansen,
Benchmarking the (1+1)-CMA-ES on the BBOB-2009 Noisy Testbed
Workshop Proceedings of the GECCO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference, ACM. (GECCO 2009). ACM, 2009.
(paper in pdf)
- Auger, A and Ros, R,
Benchmarking the Pure Random Search on the BBOB-2009 Testbed
Workshop Proceedings of the GECCO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference, ACM. (GECCO 2009). ACM, 2009.
(paper in pdf)
- Auger, A and N. Hansen,
Benchmarking the Pure Random Search on the BBOB-2009 Noisy Testbed
Workshop Proceedings of the GECCO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference, ACM. (GECCO 2009). ACM, 2009.
(paper in pdf)
- N. Hansen, N, R. Ros, N. Mauny, M. Schoenauer and A. Auger,
PSO Facing Non-Separable and Ill-Conditioned Problems
INRIA Research Report 6447.
- P. N. Suganthan, N. Hansen, J. J. Liang, K. Deb, Y.-P. Chen, A. Auger
and S. Tiwari,
Problem Definitions and Evaluation Criteria for
the CEC 2005 Special Session on Real-Parameter Optimization,
Technical Report, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, May
2005 AND KanGAL Report 2005005, IIT Kanpur, India.
- Michael Wagner, Anne Auger, Marc Schoenauer,
A New Robust Estimation of Distribution Algorithms,
Inria Research Report RR-5190, 2004.
- A. Auger, C. Le Bris, M. Schoenauer,
Rigorous Analysis
of some simple adaptive ES.
Inria Research Report RR-4914, 2003.
Teaching
- 2008--2009 Ecole Centrale Paris - Advanced Control (Genetic Algorithms)
- 2008--2009 Master 2 Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (Evolutionary Algorithms)
- 2008 Summer School "Algorithmes Evolutionnaires", Porquerolles, France (Continuous Optimization).
- 2007--2008 Master 2 Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (Evolutionary Algorithms)
- 2006--2007 Master 2 Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (Evolutionary Algorithms)
- 2005--2006 ETH Zurich together with Eckart Zitzler (Bio-inspired Computation and Optimization Lecture)
- 2004--2005 ETH Zurich together with Eckart Zitzler (Bio-inspired Computation and Optimization Lecture)
PhD students
Zyed Bouzarkouna, started December 2008
Mohamed Jebalia, defended on the 19th of December 2008
Funded Projects
- I am heading for TAO the OMD2 (Optimization MultiDisciplinaire Distribuee) project funded by the ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche).
- I am part of the TRAVESTI (TRAffic Volume Estimation by Spatio-Temporal Inference) project funded by the ANR.
