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GECCO
2006
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
The no free lunch and realistic search algorithms
The No-Free-Lunch theorems (NFLTs) are criticized for being too general to be of any relevance to the real world scenario. This paper investigates, both formally and empirically, ...
Yossi Borenstein, Riccardo Poli
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Study of Some Implications of the No Free Lunch Theorem
We introduce the concept of "minimal" search algorithm for a set of functions to optimize. We investigate the structure of closed under permutation (c.u.p.) sets and we c...
Andrea Valsecchi, Leonardo Vanneschi
GECCO
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Continuous lunches are free!
This paper investigates extensions of No Free Lunch (NFL) theorems to countably infinite and uncountable infinite domains. The original NFL due to Wolpert and Macready states th...
Anne Auger, Olivier Teytaud
EVOW
2004
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
On the Structure of Sequential Search: Beyond "No Free Lunch"
In sequential, deterministic, non-redundant search the algorithm permutes a test function to obtain the search result. The mapping from test functions to search results is a one-to...
Thomas M. English
SIGCOMM
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Perspectives on network calculus: no free lunch, but still good value
ACM Sigcomm 2006 published a paper [26] which was perceived to unify the deterministic and stochastic branches of the network calculus (abbreviated throughout as DNC and SNC) [39]...
Florin Ciucu, Jens Schmitt