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ICGA
1997
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15 years 5 months ago
Local Search Genetic Algorithm for Optimization of Highly Reliable Communications Networks
This paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA) with specialized encoding, initialization and local search genetic operators to optimize communication network topologies. This NPhard...
Berna Dengiz, Fulya Altiparmak, Alice E. Smith
PPSN
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Constrained Evolutionary Optimization by Approximate Ranking and Surrogate Models
Abstract. The paper describes an evolutionary algorithm for the general nonlinear programming problem using a surrogate model. Surrogate models are used in optimization when model ...
Thomas Philip Runarsson
ICML
1996
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A Convergent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm in the Continuous Case: The Finite-Element Reinforcement Learning
This paper presents a direct reinforcement learning algorithm, called Finite-Element Reinforcement Learning, in the continuous case, i.e. continuous state-space and time. The eval...
Rémi Munos
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CCGRID
2003
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Distributed Computing with Hierarchical Master-worker Paradigm for Parallel Branch and Bound Algorithm
This paper discusses the impact of the hierarchical master-worker paradigm on performance of an application program, which solves an optimization problem by a parallel branch and ...
Kento Aida, Wataru Natsume, Yoshiaki Futakata
ECCV
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Fast Optimization for Mixture Prior Models
Abstract. We consider the minimization of a smooth convex function regularized by the mixture of prior models. This problem is generally difficult to solve even each simpler regula...
Junzhou Huang, Shaoting Zhang, Dimitris N. Metaxas