This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 22081 "Theory of Randomized Optimization Heuristics". This seminar is part of a biennial seminar series. This year, we focused on connections between classical topics of the community, such as Evolutionary Algorithms and Strategies (EA, ES), Estimation-of-Distribution Algorithms (EDA) and Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization (EMO), and related fields like Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and Bayesian Optimization (BO). The mixture proved to be extremely successful. Already the first talk turned into a two hour long, vivid and productive plenary discussion. The seminar was smaller than previous versions (due to corona regulations), but its intensity more than made up for the smaller size.
@Article{auger_et_al:DagRep.12.2.87, author = {Auger, Anne and Fonseca, Carlos M. and Friedrich, Tobias and Lengler, Johannes and Gissler, Armand}, title = {{Theory of Randomized Optimization Heuristics (Dagstuhl Seminar 22081)}}, pages = {87--102}, journal = {Dagstuhl Reports}, ISSN = {2192-5283}, year = {2022}, volume = {12}, number = {2}, editor = {Auger, Anne and Fonseca, Carlos M. and Friedrich, Tobias and Lengler, Johannes and Gissler, Armand}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.12.2.87}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-169325}, doi = {10.4230/DagRep.12.2.87}, annote = {Keywords: black-box optimization, derivative-free optimization, evolutionary and genetic algorithms, randomized search algorithms, stochastic gradient descent, theoretical computer science} }
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