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CSDA
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
A note on iterative marginal optimization: a simple algorithm for maximum rank correlation estimation
The maximum rank correlation (MRC) estimator was originally studied by Han [1987. Nonparametric analysis of a generalized regression model. J. Econometrics 35, 303–316] and Sher...
Hansheng Wang
CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Functional Bregman Divergence and Bayesian Estimation of Distributions
Abstract--A class of distortions termed functional Bregman divergences is defined, which includes squared error and relative entropy. A functional Bregman divergence acts on functi...
B. A. Frigyik, Santosh Srivastava, Maya R. Gupta
ICGA
2008
208views Optimization» more  ICGA 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Cross-Entropy for Monte-Carlo Tree Search
Recently, Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has become a popular approach for intelligent play in games. Amongst others, it is successfully used in most state-of-the-art Go programs....
Guillaume Chaslot, Mark H. M. Winands, Istvan Szit...
ICA
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Minimax Mutual Information Approach for ICA of Complex-Valued Linear Mixtures
Abstract. Recently, the authors developed the Minimax Mutual Information algorithm for linear ICA of real-valued mixtures, which is based on a density estimate stemming from Jaynes...
Jian-Wu Xu, Deniz Erdogmus, Yadunandana N. Rao, Jo...
GECCO
2007
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
A leader-based parallel cross entropy algorithm for MCP
The Cross Entropy algorithm is a new search method for combinatorial problem. However, it needs considerable computational time to achieve good solution quality. To make the Cross...
Zhanhua Bai, Qiang Lv