Simple Tools for Multimodal Optimization

Marc Schoenauer (1, 2) , Fabien Teytaud (1, 2) , Olivier Teytaud (1, 2)

1 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
2 TAO - Machine Learning and Optimisation

We compare various approaches for multimodal optimization; we focus on comparing restart and more sophisticated approaches, and on the use of quasi-random numbers.

Keywords: Multimodal optimization

Domains: Optimization and Control [math.OC]

Marc Schoenauer, Fabien Teytaud, Olivier Teytaud. Simple Tools for Multimodal Optimization. GECCO - 13th annual conference companion on genetic and evolutionary computation, Jul 2011, Dublin, Ireland. 2011, Proceedings of the 13th annual conference companion on genetic and evolutionary computation. ⟨hal-01406444⟩