We describe and analyze a new approach for feature ranking in the presence of categorical features with a large number of possible values. It is shown that popular ranking criteria...
This paper proposes an estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) aiming at addressing globally multimodal problems, i.e., problems that present several global optima. It can be r...
The impact of learning on evolution in dynamic environments undergoes recognized stages of the Baldwin Effect although its cause is not clear. To identify it experimentally, we de...
We consider the problem of finding the best arm in a stochastic multi-armed bandit game. The regret of a forecaster is here defined by the gap between the mean reward of the optim...
We present a fast iterative support vector training algorithm for a large variety of different formulations. It works by incrementally changing a candidate support vector set usin...
S. V. N. Vishwanathan, Alex J. Smola, M. Narasimha...