Projects that are tagged with black box optimization.


Logo libcmaes 0.9.5

by beniz - March 9, 2015, 09:05:22 CET [ Project Homepage BibTeX Download ] 41596 views, 9737 downloads, 0 subscriptions

About: Libcmaes is a multithreaded C++11 library (with Python bindings) for high performance blackbox stochastic optimization of difficult, possibly non-linear and non-convex functions, using the CMA-ES algorithm for Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy. Libcmaes is useful to minimize / maximize any function, without information regarding gradient or derivability.

Changes:

This is a major release, with several novelties, improvements and fixes, among which:

  • step-size two-point adaptaion scheme for improved performances in some settings, ref #88

  • important bug fixes to the ACM surrogate scheme, ref #57, #106

  • simple high-level workflow under Python, ref #116

  • improved performances in high dimensions, ref #97

  • improved profile likelihood and contour computations, including under geno/pheno transforms, ref #30, #31, #48

  • elitist mechanism for forcing best solutions during evolution, ref 103

  • new legacy plotting function, ref #110

  • optional initial function value, ref #100

  • improved C++ API, ref #89

  • Python bindings support with Anaconda, ref #111

  • configure script now tries to detect numpy when building Python bindings, ref #113

  • Python bindings now have embedded documentation, ref #114

  • support for Travis continuous integration, ref #122

  • lower resolution random seed initialization


Logo linearizedGP 1.0

by dsteinberg - November 28, 2014, 07:02:54 CET [ Project Homepage BibTeX BibTeX for corresponding Paper Download ] 9376 views, 2010 downloads, 0 subscriptions

About: Gaussian processes with general nonlinear likelihoods using the unscented transform or Taylor series linearisation.

Changes:

Initial Announcement on mloss.org.