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GECCO
2010
Springer
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Investigating the impact of sequential selection in the (1, 2)-CMA-ES on the noisy BBOB-2010 testbed
Sequential selection was introduced for Evolution Strategies (ESs) with the aim of accelerating their convergence— performing the evaluations of the different offspring sequen...
Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
COCO
2008
Springer
146views Algorithms» more  COCO 2008»
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A Direct Product Theorem for Discrepancy
Discrepancy is a versatile bound in communication complexity which can be used to show lower bounds in the distributional, randomized, quantum, and even unbounded error models of ...
Troy Lee, Adi Shraibman, Robert Spalek
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NIPS
2004
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Variational Minimax Estimation of Discrete Distributions under KL Loss
We develop a family of upper and lower bounds on the worst-case expected KL loss for estimating a discrete distribution on a finite number m of points, given N i.i.d. samples. Our...
Liam Paninski
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CEC
2010
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Geometric Nelder-Mead Algorithm for the permutation representation
The Nelder-Mead Algorithm (NMA) is an almost half-century old method for numerical optimization, and it is a close relative of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Differential Ev...
Alberto Moraglio, Julian Togelius
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GECCO
2008
Springer
108views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
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The effects of mutation and directed intervention crossover when applied to scheduling chemotherapy
This paper discusses the effects of mutation and directed intervention crossover approaches when applied to the derivation of cancer chemotherapy treatment schedules. Unlike trad...
Paul M. Godley, David E. Cairns, Julie Cowie, Kevi...