Benchmarking of black-box optimisation techniques:
- Evolutionary Strategies
- Novelty Search - ES
- Quality diversity - ES
- Map-elite
- Covariance Matrix Adaptive - ES
The three functions tested are Rastrigin, Ackley and Rosenbrock which are pictured in 3D below
Ackley function
Rastrigin function
Rosenbrock function
comparison between ES and QD algorithms on the ackley contour map
QD on ackley
ES on ackley
ES on rosenbrock
Results on Rosenbrock
Results on Ackley
Results on Rastrigin
Complete set of figures can be found by running the script