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TSMC
2011
13 years 4 days ago
2011
—This paper introduces an algorithm for direct search of control policies in continuous-state discrete-action Markov decision processes. The algorithm looks for the best closed-l...
GECCO
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
The Cross Entropy algorithm is a new search method for combinatorial problem. However, it needs considerable computational time to achieve good solution quality. To make the Cross...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
This paper introduces a novel solver, namely cross entropy (CE), into the MRF theory for medical image segmentation. The solver, which is based on the theory of rare event simulati...
GECCO
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper deals with the adaptive variance scaling issue in continuous Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. A phenomenon is discovered that current adaptive variance scaling me...
UAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...