Benchmarking Gradient Estimation Mechanisms in Evolution Strategies for Solving Black-Box Optimization Functions and Reinforcement Learning Problems

Thai Bao Tran, Ngoc Hoang Luong

Setup

• Clone this repo:

$ git clone ...
$ cd BenchGEM-ES

• Install dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

To perform experiments on RL, we install MuJoCo from here

Usage

Run

Evaluate & Visualize

Acknowledgement

Our source code is inspired by:

• Guided Evolutionary Strategy
• Self-Guided Evolutionary Strategy