SIMINOLE 06 Optimization

Friday Oct 19, 2012, 10:20 AM → 6:00 PM Europe/Paris

LRI, Orsay

Nikolaus Hansen (INRIA, TAO, LRI)

ANR SIMINOLE project meeting

1 Discussion on ROOT/RooFit and further open discussion

2 Surrogate collaborative tuning: automatic hyperparameter learning across datasets

Speaker: Rémi Bardenet

Transparents hyperparamtuning.pdf

3 Introducing Information Geometric Optimization (IGO): A distinct framework for randomized optimization

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

Transparents intro-to-IGO.pdf

3:00 PM Coffee Break

4 A linear convergence proof of the isotropic ES via a continuous time approximation

Speaker: Youhei Akimoto

Transparents siminole_akimoto.pdf

5 A blend of invariance and stochastic stability: linear convergence and more for (Natural) Evolution Strategies

Speaker: Anne Auger

Transparents aaugerstochstability.pdf

6 Free discussion