Abstract As the Optuna CMA-ES sampler does not support any flexible ways to initialize the parameters of the Gaussian distribution, so I created a workaround to do so.
Class or Function Names UserPriorCmaEsSampler In principle, most arguments follow optuna.samplers.CmaEsSampler, but some parts are modified.
For example, UserPriorCmaEsSampler does not support source_trials and use_separable_cma due to their incompatibility. Instead, we replaced x0 and sigma0 in CmaEsSampler with mu0 and cov0. In CmaEsSampler, we needed to provide x0 as dict and sigma0 only as float.