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UAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Improving Gradient Estimation by Incorporating Sensor Data
An efficient policy search algorithm should estimate the local gradient of the objective function, with respect to the policy parameters, from as few trials as possible. Whereas m...
Gregory Lawrence, Stuart J. Russell
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
201views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
Load balancing via random local search in closed and open systems
In this paper, we analyze the performance of random load resampling and migration strategies in parallel server systems. Clients initially attach to an arbitrary server, but may s...
Ayalvadi Ganesh, Sarah Lilienthal, D. Manjunath, A...
GECCO
2010
Springer
187views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Benchmarking the (1, 4)-CMA-ES with mirrored sampling and sequential selection on the noisy BBOB-2010 testbed
The Covariance-Matrix-Adaptation Evolution-Strategy (CMA-ES) is a robust stochastic search algorithm for optimizing functions defined on a continuous search space RD . Recently, ...
Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
CCECE
2006
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Evolutionary Strategy Based Improved Motion Estimation Technique for H.264 Video Coding
In this paper we propose an improved motion estimation algorithm based on Evolutionary strategy (ES) for H.264 video codec applied to video. The proposed technique works in a para...
S. Mayuran, Warnakulasuriya Anil Chandana Fernando...
AIPS
2004
13 years 7 months ago
An Empirical Analysis of Some Heuristic Features for Local Search in LPG
LPG is a planner that performed very well in the last International planning competition (2002). The system is based on a stochastic local search procedure, and it incorporates se...
Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina