A survey of niching algorithms, based on 5 variants of derandomized Evolution Strategies (ES), is introduced. This set of niching algorithms, ranging from the very first derandom...
This paper deals with the adaptive variance scaling issue in continuous Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. A phenomenon is discovered that current adaptive variance scaling me...
d abstract] Robert Krauthgamer ∗ IBM Almaden James R. Lee † Institute for Advanced Study We initiate the study of approximate algorithms on negatively curved spaces. These spa...
PathBank is a web-based query and visualization system for biological pathways using an integrated pathway database. To address the needs for biologists to visualize and analyze b...
— A key step in many statistical learning methods used in machine learning involves solving a convex optimization problem containing one or more hyper-parameters that must be sel...
Kristin P. Bennett, Jing Hu, Xiaoyun Ji, Gautam Ku...