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ICCS
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Experience with Approximations in the Trust-Region Parallel Direct Search Algorithm
Recent years have seen growth in the number of algorithms designed to solve challenging simulation-based nonlinear optimization problems. One such algorithm is the Trust-Region Par...
S. M. Shontz, V. E. Howle, P. D. Hough
NIPS
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Policy Search for Motor Primitives in Robotics
Many motor skills in humanoid robotics can be learned using parametrized motor primitives as done in imitation learning. However, most interesting motor learning problems are high...
Jens Kober, Jan Peters
NIPS
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Online Metric Learning and Fast Similarity Search
Metric learning algorithms can provide useful distance functions for a variety of domains, and recent work has shown good accuracy for problems where the learner can access all di...
Prateek Jain, Brian Kulis, Inderjit S. Dhillon, Kr...
SCALESPACE
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Momentum Based Optimization Methods for Level Set Segmentation
Abstract. Segmentation of images is often posed as a variational problem. As such, it is solved by formulating an energy functional depending on a contour and other image derived t...
Gunnar Läthén, Thord Andersson, Reiner...
CEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Natural Evolution Strategies
— This paper presents Natural Evolution Strategies (NES), a novel algorithm for performing real-valued ‘black box’ function optimization: optimizing an unknown objective func...
Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul, Jan Peters, Jürgen...