UP
Invited Talks, Seminars, Tutorials
- November 2009, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt,
Seminar constraints,
The difficulties of black-box optimization and a stochastic variable metric approach (slides, 2.5MB)
- October 2009, Birmingham, tutorial at the workshop for
Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics (TRSH), tutorial
Theory of randomized search heuristics for continuous
optimization
- July 2009, Montreal, Tutorial at GECCO,
Evolution Strategies and Covariance Matrix Adaptation (slides 1.1MB)
- April 2009, Université Paris 6, Challenges for stochastic optimization and a variable metric approach (slides 1.7MB)
- September 2008, Dortmund, Tutorial at PPSN,
Evolution Strategies and Related Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (slides 1.3MB)
- July 2008, Atlanta, Tutorial at GECCO,
Evolution Strategies and Related Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (slides 1.3MB)
- May 2008, Microsoft Research-INRIA Joint Centre, First
Search and Biology Day, Dynamic Problem Encoding for Optimization
(slides 1.3MB)
- April 2008, Lorentz
Center Leiden, Tutorial—Covariance Matrix Adaptation
Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES)
- February 2008, Schloss
Dagstuhl, Toward a Convergence Proof for CMA-ES—and
Beyond
(slides 1.2MB)
- July 2007, University Kiel, Institute of CS,
Stochastic Optimization in Continuous Domain:
Challenges and Approaches (slides 2.5MB)
- September 2006, Reykjavik, Tutorial at PPSN,
The Covariance Matrix Adaptation (CMA) Evolution
Strategy (slides 1.7MB)
- February 2006, Schloss Dagstuhl,
Step Length on Linear Fitness Functions—Self-Adaptation and Beyond
(slides 0.6MB)
- December 2005, University Dortmund FB Statistik,
Evolutionary Optimization and the CMA Evolution Strategy
- February 2004, Schloss Dagstuhl,
The Covariance Matrix Adaptation (CMA)—Yet Another
Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA)?
- February 2000, Schloss Dagstuhl,
Keypoints in Strategy Parameter Control