Evolution Strategies and Threshold Selection

摘要

A hybrid approach that combines the (1 + 1)-ES and threshold selection methods is developed. The framework of the new exper-imentalism is used to perform a detailed statistical analysis of the effects that are caused by this hybridization. Experimental results on the sphere function indicate that hybridization worsens the performance of the evolution strategy, because evolution strategies are well-scaled hill-climbers: the additional threshold disturbs the self-adaptation process of the evolution strategy. Theory predicts that the hybrid approach might be advantageous in the presence of noise. This effect could be observed—however, a proper fine tuning of the algorithm's parameters appears to be advantageous.