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MSC-CMA-ES: Structure-Aware Restarts for CMA-ES via Cyclic Nearest-Better Basin Discovery

arXiv:2606.15830v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: CMA-ES is, per run, a local optimizer; multimodal search relies on restart strategies such as IPOP and BIPOP, which draw every restart uniformly and reuse no information from previous evaluations. Multi-Start Clustering CMA-ES (MSC-CMA-ES) makes restarts structure-awa