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JMLR
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Random Search for Hyper-Parameter Optimization
Grid search and manual search are the most widely used strategies for hyper-parameter optimization. This paper shows empirically and theoretically that randomly chosen trials are ...
James Bergstra, Yoshua Bengio
JGO
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Stopping rules in k-adaptive global random search algorithms
In this paper we develop a methodology for defining stopping rules in a general class of global random search algorithms that are based on the use of statistical procedures. To bu...
Anatoly A. Zhigljavsky, Emily Hamilton
ICML
2001
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Direct Policy Search using Paired Statistical Tests
Direct policy search is a practical way to solve reinforcement learning problems involving continuous state and action spaces. The goal becomes finding policy parameters that maxi...
Malcolm J. A. Strens, Andrew W. Moore
FGR
2006
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Face Alignment with Unified Subspace Optimization of Active Statistical Models
Active statistical models including active shape models and active appearance models are very powerful for face alignment. They are composed of two parts: the subspace model(s) an...
Ming Zhao 0003, Tat-Seng Chua
IJAIT
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Guiding Constructive Search with Statistical Instance-Based Learning
Several real world applications involve solving combinatorial optimization problems. Commonly, existing heuristic approaches are designed to address specific difficulties of the u...
Orestis Telelis, Panagiotis Stamatopoulos