The interplay between the mutation operator and the selection mechanism plays a fundamental role in the behaviour of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). However, this interplay is stil...
We consider a recently proposed optimization formulation of multi-task learning based on trace norm regularized least squares. While this problem may be formulated as a semidefini...
Ting Kei Pong, Paul Tseng, Shuiwang Ji, Jieping Ye
Today many applications routinely generate large quantities of data. The data often takes the form of (time) series, or more generally streams, i.e. an ordered sequence of records...
The Negative Slope Coefficient (nsc) is an empirical measure of problem hardness based on the analysis of offspring-fitness vs. parent-fitness scatterplots. The nsc has been teste...
The properties of symmetric fitness functions are investigated. We show that a well-known encoding scheme inducing symmetric functions has the non-synonymous property and the sear...