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The No Free Lunch Theorem: What Are its Main Implications for the Optimization Practice?

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Abstract

The chapter considers the recent but already classic theoretical result called No Free Lunch Theorem in the context of optimization practice. The No Free Lunch Theorem is probably the fundamental theoretical result of the Machine Learning field but its practical meaning and implication for practitioners facing “real life” industrial and design optimization problems are rarely addressed in the technical literature. This discussion is intended for a broad audience of mathematicians, engineers, and computer scientists and presents a probabilistic understanding of the theorem that can shed light to its meaning and impact in the industrial optimization practice.

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Fußnoten
1
With some abuse of language, in this chapter we will use the terms learning and inferring interchangeably.
 
2
In metaheuristics optimization the objective function is often referred to as fitness function or simply fitness.
 
3
Even if there is no explicit mention of constrains here the formulation is nonetheless enough general since they can be incorporated through an appropriate definition of the search space \(\mathcal {H}\).
 
4
Of course the sample must be properly generated. For Design of Experiments techniques see [10].
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The No Free Lunch Theorem: What Are its Main Implications for the Optimization Practice?
verfasst von
Loris Serafino
Copyright-Jahr
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66515-9_12

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