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GECCO
2005
Springer
232views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
15 years 8 months ago
Factorial representations to generate arbitrary search distributions
A powerful approach to search is to try to learn a distribution of good solutions (in particular of the dependencies between their variables) and use this distribution as a basis ...
Marc Toussaint
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ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Improving reinforcement learning function approximators via neuroevolution
Reinforcement learning problems are commonly tackled with temporal difference methods, which use dynamic programming and statistical sampling to estimate the long-term value of ta...
Shimon Whiteson
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PLDI
2004
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Inducing heuristics to decide whether to schedule
Instruction scheduling is a compiler optimization that can improve program speed, sometimes by 10% or more—but it can also be expensive. Furthermore, time spent optimizing is mo...
John Cavazos, J. Eliot B. Moss
127
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WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Learning to rank relational objects and its application to web search
Learning to rank is a new statistical learning technology on creating a ranking model for sorting objects. The technology has been successfully applied to web search, and is becom...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
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INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
The Impact of Stochastic Noisy Feedback on Distributed Network Utility Maximization
—The implementation of distributed network utility maximization (NUM) algorithms hinges heavily on information feedback through message passing among network elements. In practic...
Junshan Zhang, Dong Zheng, Mung Chiang