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Last active October 23, 2023 17:50
Natural Evolution Strategies (NES) toy example that optimizes a quadratic function
"""
A bare bones examples of optimizing a black-box function (f) using
Natural Evolution Strategies (NES), where the parameter distribution is a
gaussian of fixed standard deviation.
"""
import numpy as np
np.random.seed(0)
# the function we want to optimize