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GECCO
2006
Springer
135views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
The no free lunch and realistic search algorithms
The No-Free-Lunch theorems (NFLTs) are criticized for being too general to be of any relevance to the real world scenario. This paper investigates, both formally and empirically, ...
Yossi Borenstein, Riccardo Poli
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
179views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
12 years 8 months ago
No free lunch in data privacy
Differential privacy is a powerful tool for providing privacypreserving noisy query answers over statistical databases. It guarantees that the distribution of noisy query answers...
Daniel Kifer, Ashwin Machanavajjhala
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A Comparison of Evolutionary Methods for the Discovery of Local Search Heuristics
Abstract. Methods of adaptive constraint satisfaction have recently become of interest to overcome the limitations imposed on “black-box” search algorithms by the no free lunch...
Stuart Bain, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar
ICML
1994
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Conservation Law for Generalization Performance
Conservation of information (COI) popularized by the no free lunch theorem is a great leveler of search algorithms, showing that on average no search outperforms any other. Yet in ...
Cullen Schaffer
ALGORITHMS
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
A Complete Theory of Everything (Will Be Subjective)
Increasingly encompassing models have been suggested for our world. Theories range from generally accepted to increasingly speculative to apparently bogus. The progression of theo...
Marcus Hutter