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ISDA
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Valley-Adaptive Clearing Scheme for Multimodal Optimization Evolutionary Search
Recent studies [13, 18] have shown that clearing schemes are efficient multi-modal optimization methods. They efficiently reduce genetic drift which is the direct reason for prema...
Mostafa Mostafa Hashim Ellabaan, Yew-Soon Ong
CP
2000
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Optimal Anytime Constrained Simulated Annealing for Constrained Global Optimization
Abstract. In this paper we propose an optimal anytime version of constrained simulated annealing (CSA) for solving constrained nonlinear programming problems (NLPs). One of the goa...
Benjamin W. Wah, Yixin Chen
BMCBI
2006
161views more  BMCBI 2006»
15 years 4 months ago
A novel approach to phylogenetic tree construction using stochastic optimization and clustering
Background: The problem of inferring the evolutionary history and constructing the phylogenetic tree with high performance has become one of the major problems in computational bi...
Ling Qin, Yixin Chen, Yi Pan, Ling Chen
UAI
2003
15 years 5 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
ECAI
2006
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Least Squares SVM for Least Squares TD Learning
Abstract. We formulate the problem of least squares temporal difference learning (LSTD) in the framework of least squares SVM (LS-SVM). To cope with the large amount (and possible ...
Tobias Jung, Daniel Polani