Evaluating the Population Size Adaptation Mechanism for CMA-ES on the BBOB Noisy Testbed

The CMA-ES with a population size adaptation mechanism is benchmarked on the BBOB noisy testbed. The population size is adapted online based on the signal-to-noise ratio of the update of the distribution parameters such as the mean vector and the covariance matrix. Four variants of the population adaptation mechanism with a random restart strategy and the BIPOP-CMA-ES are compared.