We introduce the Spacing Memetic Algorithm (SMA), a formal evolutionary model devoted to a systematic control of spacing (distances) among individuals. SMA uses search space dista...
Daniel Cosmin Porumbel, Jin-Kao Hao, Pascale Kuntz
Given an algorithm A for solving some mathematical problem based on the iterative solution of simpler subproblems, an Outer Trust-Region (OTR) modification of A is the result of ...
Ernesto G. Birgin, Emerson V. Castelani, Andr&eacu...
We present new training methods that aim to mitigate local optima and slow convergence in unsupervised training by using additional imperfect objectives. In its simplest form, lat...
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jura...
The expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is a popular algorithm for parameter estimation in models with hidden variables. However, the algorithm has several non-trivial limitat...
In recent years there has been a lot of interest in designing principled classification algorithms over multiple cues, based on the intuitive notion that using more features shou...