openalexACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization2026-07-23
Solving Deep Reinforcement Learning Tasks with Evolution Strategies and Linear Policy Networks
Annie Wong, Jacob de Nobel, Thomas Bäck, Aske Plaat, Anna V. Kononova
Although deep reinforcement learning methods can learn effective policies for challenging problems, the underlying algorithms are complex, and training times are often long. This study investigates how several state-of-the-art versions of Evolution Strategies perform compared to…