example.example_experiment_for_beginners

DEPRECATED: use rather example_experiment_simple.py

A short and simple example experiment with restarts.

The code is fully functional but mainly emphasises on readability. Hence produces only rudimentary progress messages and does not provide batch distribution or timing prints, as example_experiment2.py does.

To apply the code to a different solver, fmin must be re-assigned or re-defined accordingly. For example, using cma.fmin instead of scipy.optimize.fmin can be done like:

import cma
def fmin(fun, x0, **kwargs):
    return cma.fmin2(fun, x0, 2, {'verbose': -9} if not kwargs.get('disp')
                                 else None)[0]