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GECCO
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDA) are similar to genetic algorithms except that they replace crossover and mutation with sampling from an estimated probability distributi...
COLT
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. We present a unified and complete account of maximum entropy distribution estimation subject to constraints represented by convex potential functions or, alternatively, b...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
2011
IEEE
In this paper, we present a novel entropy estimator for a given set of samples drawn from an unknown probability density function (PDF). Counter to other entropy estimators, the e...
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Metaheuristics such as Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and the Cross-Entropy method use probabilistic modelling and inference to generate candidate solutions in optimizat...
TSP
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
A novel (differential) entropy estimator is introduced where the maximum entropy bound is used to approximate the entropy given the observations, and is computed using a numerical ...