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PPSN
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Distribution Tree-Building Real-Valued Evolutionary Algorithm
This article describes a new model of probability density function and its use in estimation of distribution algorithms. The new model, the distribution tree, has interesting prope...
Petr Posik
SAC
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Importance tempering
Simulated tempering (ST) is an established Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methodology for sampling from a multimodal density π(θ). The technique involves introducing an auxilia...
Robert B. Gramacy, Richard Samworth, Ruth King
FCT
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
On Random Betweenness Constraints
Despite of their applicability betweennness constraints have (to the author’s knowledge) hardly been considered from the random structures point of view. They are essentially di...
Andreas Goerdt
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Randomness extractors -- applications and constructions
Randomness extractors are efficient algorithms which convert weak random sources into nearly perfect ones. While such purification of randomness was the original motivation for c...
Avi Wigderson
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ISMVL
2007
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
Survey of Stochastic Computation on Factor Graphs
Stochastic computation is a new alternative approach for iterative computation on factor graphs. In this approach, the information is represented by the statistics of the bit stre...
Saeed Sharifi Tehrani, Shie Mannor, Warren J. Gros...