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GECCO
2006
Springer
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Segmentation of medical images using a genetic algorithm
Segmentation of medical images is challenging due to poor image contrast and artifacts that result in missing or diffuse organ/tissue boundaries. Consequently, this task involves ...
Payel Ghosh, Melanie Mitchell
GECCO
2006
Springer
206views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
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A dynamically constrained genetic algorithm for hardware-software partitioning
In this article, we describe the application of an enhanced genetic algorithm to the problem of hardware-software codesign. Starting from a source code written in a high-level lan...
Pierre-André Mudry, Guillaume Zufferey, Gia...
GECCO
2006
Springer
287views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
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A GA-ACO-local search hybrid algorithm for solving quadratic assignment problem
In recent decades, many meta-heuristics, including genetic algorithm (GA), ant colony optimization (ACO) and various local search (LS) procedures have been developed for solving a...
Yiliang Xu, Meng-Hiot Lim, Yew-Soon Ong, Jing Tang
KDD
2010
ACM
223views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
An efficient algorithm for a class of fused lasso problems
The fused Lasso penalty enforces sparsity in both the coefficients and their successive differences, which is desirable for applications with features ordered in some meaningful w...
Jun Liu, Lei Yuan, Jieping Ye
NIPS
2008
15 years 5 months ago
Signal-to-Noise Ratio Analysis of Policy Gradient Algorithms
Policy gradient (PG) reinforcement learning algorithms have strong (local) convergence guarantees, but their learning performance is typically limited by a large variance in the e...
John W. Roberts, Russ Tedrake