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IR
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Gradient descent optimization of smoothed information retrieval metrics
Abstract Most ranking algorithms are based on the optimization of some loss functions, such as the pairwise loss. However, these loss functions are often different from the criter...
Olivier Chapelle, Mingrui Wu
EVOW
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Gaussian Adaptation Revisited - An Entropic View on Covariance Matrix Adaptation
Abstract. We revisit Gaussian Adaptation (GaA), a black-box optimizer for discrete and continuous problems that has been developed in the late 1960’s. This largely neglected sear...
Christian L. Müller, Ivo F. Sbalzarini
ICGA
1997
122views Optimization» more  ICGA 1997»
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Global and Local Search Methods in Drug Docking
Molecular docking software makes computational predictions of the interaction of molecules. This can be useful, for example, in evaluating the binding of candidate drug molecules ...
Christopher D. Rosin, R. Scott Halliday, William E...
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Real-coded differential crisp clustering for MRI brain image segmentation
Abstract-- In this paper, a segmentation technique of multispectral magnetic resonance image of the brain using a new differential evolution based crisp clustering is proposed. Rea...
Indrajit Saha, Ujjwal Maulik, Sanghamitra Bandyopa...
ECCV
2002
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Multi-scale EM-ICP: A Fast and Robust Approach for Surface Registration
We investigate in this article the rigid registration of large sets of points, generally sampled from surfaces. We formulate this problem as a general Maximum-Likelihood (ML) estim...
Sébastien Granger, Xavier Pennec