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Studies in Continuous Black-box Optimization Richard Sukup will Iskander find what heThis PhD dissertation presents a collection of novel, state of the art algorithms for solving problems in the class of continuous black box optimization. Natural Evolution Strategies are a family of algorithms that constitutes a general purpose approach. Maintaining a parameterized distribution on the set of solution candidates, the natural gradient is used to update the distribution's parameters in the direction of higher expected fitness. Techniques