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NIPS
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Topmoumoute Online Natural Gradient Algorithm
Guided by the goal of obtaining an optimization algorithm that is both fast and yields good generalization, we study the descent direction maximizing the decrease in generalizatio...
Nicolas Le Roux, Pierre-Antoine Manzagol, Yoshua B...
ISCI
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Fuzzy age-dependent replacement policy and SPSA algorithm based-on fuzzy simulation
An increase in the performance of deteriorating systems can be achieved through the adoption of suitable maintenance policies. One of the most popular maintenance policies is the ...
Jiashun Zhang, Ruiqing Zhao, Wansheng Tang
GECCO
2008
Springer
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ASAGA: an adaptive surrogate-assisted genetic algorithm
Genetic algorithms (GAs) used in complex optimization domains usually need to perform a large number of fitness function evaluations in order to get near-optimal solutions. In rea...
Liang Shi, Khaled Rasheed
PACT
2007
Springer
16 years 10 days ago
A Stochastic Semantics for BioAmbients
We consider BioAmbients, a calculus for specifying biological entities and for simulating and analysing their behaviour. We extend BioAmbients to take quantitative information into...
Linda Brodo, Pierpaolo Degano, Corrado Priami
ICML
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Qualitative reinforcement learning
When the transition probabilities and rewards of a Markov Decision Process are specified exactly, the problem can be solved without any interaction with the environment. When no s...
Arkady Epshteyn, Gerald DeJong