It is possible for a GA to have two stable fixed points on a single-peak fitness landscape. These can correspond to meta-stable finite populations. This phenomenon is called bis...
The focus is on black-box optimization of a function f : RN R given as a black box, i. e. an oracle for f-evaluations. This is commonly called direct search, and in fact, most meth...
Reinforcement learning deals with learning optimal or near optimal policies while interacting with the environment. Application domains with many continuous variables are difficul...
"Experts algorithms" constitute a methodology for choosing actions repeatedly, when the rewards depend both on the choice of action and on the unknown current state of t...
— Parameter setting is an important issue in the design of evolutionary algorithms. Recently, experimental work has pointed out that it is often not useful to work with a fixed ...
Pietro Simone Oliveto, Per Kristian Lehre, Frank N...