SIMINOLE 03 Optimization

Friday Feb 4, 2011, 1:45 PM → 6:00 PM Europe/Paris

LRI, Orsay

Nikolaus Hansen (INRIA, TAO, LRI)

ANR SIMINOLE project meeting

2:00 PM → 2:10 PM Welcome

Speaker: Mr Balazs Kegl (LAL)

Transparents slidesNews.pdf

2:10 PM → 3:10 PM Stochastic (Randomized) Optimization via Natural Gradient Descend

Speaker: Dr Nikolaus Hansen (INRIA, TAO, LRI)

Transparents stoch-search.pdf

3:10 PM → 3:30 PM Benchmarking for Optimization

Speaker: Dr Nikolaus Hansen (INRIA, TAO, LRI)

Transparents coco-bbob.pdf

3:30 PM → 3:50 PM Coffee Break

3:50 PM → 4:35 PM Linear convergence of Evolution Strategies via stability of some Markov Chains

Speaker: Anne Auger

4:35 PM → 5:20 PM Topics at the interface between MCMC and ES

Speaker: Mr Rémi Bardenet (LAL, University Paris-Sud XI, IN2P3)

Transparents slides.pdf

5:20 PM → 6:00 PM Free discussion