Quasi-random numbers improve the CMA-ES on the BBOB testbed

to appearInternational audiencePseudo-random numbers are usually a good enough approximation of random numbers in evolutionary algorithms. But quasi-random numbers follow a different idea, namely they are aimed at being more regularly distributed than random points. It has been pointed out in earlier papers that quasi-random points provide a significant improvement in evolutionary optimization. In this paper, we experiment quasi-random mutations on a well known test case, namely the Coco/Bbob test case. We also include experiments on translated or rescaled versions of BBOB, on which we get similar improvements