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CEC
2010
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Two novel Ant Colony Optimization approaches for Bayesian network structure learning
Learning Bayesian networks from data is an N-P hard problem with important practical applications. Several researchers have designed algorithms to overcome the computational comple...
Yanghui Wu, John A. W. McCall, David W. Corne
JMLR
2010
143views more  JMLR 2010»
15 years 5 months ago
A Quasi-Newton Approach to Nonsmooth Convex Optimization Problems in Machine Learning
We extend the well-known BFGS quasi-Newton method and its memory-limited variant LBFGS to the optimization of nonsmooth convex objectives. This is done in a rigorous fashion by ge...
Jin Yu, S. V. N. Vishwanathan, Simon Günter, ...
CEC
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Multi-level neutrality in optimization
Abstract— This paper explores the idea of neutrality in heuristic optimization algorithms. In particular, the effect of having multiple levels of neutrality in representations is...
Colin G. Johnson
ISCAS
2005
IEEE
114views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2005»
16 years 26 days ago
Structured stochastic optimization strategies for problems with ill-conditioned error surfaces
—This paper compares the performance of several structured optimization strategies in adaptive signal processing problems that are characterized by ill-conditioned error surfaces...
S. Pal, Dean J. Krusienski, W. Kenneth Jenkins
GECCO
2003
Springer
130views Optimization» more  GECCO 2003»
16 years 14 days ago
A New Approach to Improve Particle Swarm Optimization
Abstract. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a new evolutionary computation technique. Although PSO algorithm possesses many attractive properties, the methods of selecting inert...
Liping Zhang, Huanjun Yu, Shangxu Hu