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GECCO
2009
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Efficient natural evolution strategies
Efficient Natural Evolution Strategies (eNES) is a novel alternative to conventional evolutionary algorithms, using the natural gradient to adapt the mutation distribution. Unlike...
Yi Sun, Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul, Jürgen Sch...
CORR
2011
Springer
192views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 23 days ago
Distribution-Independent Evolvability of Linear Threshold Functions
Valiant’s (2007) model of evolvability models the evolutionary process of acquiring useful functionality as a restricted form of learning from random examples. Linear threshold ...
Vitaly Feldman
EPS
1998
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Acquisition of General Adaptive Features by Evolution
We investigate the following question. Do populations of evolving agents adapt only to their recent environment or do general adaptive features appear over time? We find statistica...
Dan Ashlock, John E. Mayfield
GPEM
2002
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13 years 5 months ago
On Appropriate Adaptation Levels for the Learning of Gene Linkage
A number of algorithms have been proposed aimed at tackling the problem of learning "Gene Linkage" within the context of genetic optimisation, that is to say, the problem...
James Smith
BMCBI
2011
13 years 8 days ago
PhyloSim - Monte Carlo simulation of sequence evolution in the R statistical computing environment
Background: The Monte Carlo simulation of sequence evolution is routinely used to assess the performance of phylogenetic inference methods and sequence alignment algorithms. Progr...
Botond Sipos, Tim Massingham, Gregory E. Jordan, N...