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6. Designing an Optimal Search Algorithm with Respect to Prior Information

verfasst von : Olivier Teytaud, Emmanuel Vazquez

Erschienen in: Theory and Principled Methods for the Design of Metaheuristics

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

There are many optimization algorithms, most of them with many parameters. When you know which family of problems you face, you would like to design the optimization algorithm which is the best for this family (e.g., on average against a given distribution of probability on this family of optimization algorithms). This chapter is devoted to this framework: we assume that we know a probability distribution, from which the fitness function is drawn, and we look for the optimal optimization algorithm. This can be based (i) on experimentations, i.e. tuning the parameters on a set of problems, (ii) on mathematical approaches automatically building an optimization algorithm from a probability distribution on fitness functions (reinforcement learning approaches), or (iii) some simplified versions of the latter, with more reasonable computational cost (Gaussian processes for optimization).

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Metadaten
Titel
Designing an Optimal Search Algorithm with Respect to Prior Information
verfasst von
Olivier Teytaud
Emmanuel Vazquez
Copyright-Jahr
2014
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33206-7_6