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GECCO
2006
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Particle swarm with speciation and adaptation in a dynamic environment
This paper describes an extension to a speciation-based particle swarm optimizer (SPSO) to improve performance in dynamic environments. The improved SPSO has adopted several prove...
Xiaodong Li, Jürgen Branke, Tim Blackwell
GECCO
2009
Springer
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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...
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ML
2002
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
Structure in the Space of Value Functions
Solving in an efficient manner many different optimal control tasks within the same underlying environment requires decomposing the environment into its computationally elemental ...
David J. Foster, Peter Dayan
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MP
2006
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Minimizing Polynomials via Sum of Squares over the Gradient Ideal
A method is proposed for finding the global minimum of a multivariate polynomial via sum of squares (SOS) relaxation over its gradient variety. That variety consists of all points ...
Jiawang Nie, James Demmel, Bernd Sturmfels
BMCBI
2008
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14 years 12 months ago
Identification of a small optimal subset of CpG sites as bio-markers from high-throughput DNA methylation profiles
Background: DNA methylation patterns have been shown to significantly correlate with different tissue types and disease states. High-throughput methylation arrays enable large-sca...
Hailong Meng, Edward Lenn Murrelle, Guoya Li