Figure 1: Flowchart of the Lao framework, displaying only
4 instances.
Care must be taken when using the ANN and the Genetransferer
as external hints within the standard CMA-ES
process, to avoid corrupting it too much. Indeed, CMAES
should be informed about these external hints, if they
improve the tness-function. The proposed solution is to
handle those parameter-sets as if they were by chance the
hint of the CMA-ES algorithm, i.e. to replace a standard
request from CMA-ES by the value of the external hint,
thus minimizing possible corruption. The global step size is
updated with true or false, depending on the improvement
or lack of improvement, and as in the usual CMA-ES algo-