เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	Evolutionary Strategy (CMA-ES)	Genetic Algorithm
สาขาวิชา	การหาค่าเหมาะที่สุด	การหาค่าเหมาะที่สุด
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	2001	1975
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Nikolaus Hansen & Andreas Ostermeier	John Henry Holland
ประเภท	Derivative-free continuous black-box optimizer	Population-based metaheuristic
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Hansen, N. & Ostermeier, A. (2001). Completely Derandomized Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Strategies. Evolutionary Computation, 9(2), 159-195.	Holland, J.H. (1975). Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. University of Michigan Press.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	CMA-ES, Evolution Strategy, Evrimsel Strateji (CMA-ES), self-adapting evolution strategy	GA, evolutionary algorithm, Genetik Algoritma — Evrimsel Optimizasyon
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	5	5
สรุป	CMA-ES, short for Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy, is a modern derivative-free optimizer for continuous black-box functions introduced by Hansen and Ostermeier in 2001. It maintains a population of candidate solutions drawn from a multivariate normal distribution and iteratively updates the distribution's mean, step size, and full covariance matrix to steer the search toward better regions of the parameter space. It has become the de-facto standard for continuous black-box optimization and is widely used in neural architecture search and reinforcement-learning policy optimization.	A genetic algorithm (GA) is a population-based metaheuristic optimization method introduced by John Henry Holland (1975) that mimics the principles of natural selection. It maintains a population of candidate solutions and iteratively improves them through selection, crossover, and mutation operators, making it especially powerful on discontinuous, non-convex, and multi-modal search spaces where classical gradient-based methods fail.