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GECCO
2007
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Global multiobjective optimization via estimation of distribution algorithm with biased initialization and crossover
Multiobjective optimization problems with many local Pareto fronts is a big challenge to evolutionary algorithms. In this paper, two operators, biased initialization and biased cr...
Aimin Zhou, Qingfu Zhang, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sen...
CEC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Rigorous time complexity analysis of Univariate Marginal Distribution Algorithm with margins
—Univariate Marginal Distribution Algorithms (UMDAs) are a kind of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) which do not consider the dependencies among the variables. In thi...
Tianshi Chen, Ke Tang, Guoliang Chen, Xin Yao
CEC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Incorporating a Metropolis method in a distribution estimation using Markov random field algorithm
Abstract- Markov Random Field (MRF) modelling techniques have been recently proposed as a novel approach to probabilistic modelling for Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs)...
Siddhartha Shakya, John A. W. McCall, Deryck F. Br...
CEC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
When is an estimation of distribution algorithm better than an evolutionary algorithm?
—Despite the wide-spread popularity of estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs), there has been no theoretical proof that there exist optimisation problems where EDAs perform...
Tianshi Chen, Per Kristian Lehre, Ke Tang, Xin Yao