No Free Lunch Theorems for Search
We show that all algorithms that search for an extremum of a cost function perform exactly the same, according to any performance measure, when averaged over all possible cost f...
We show that all algorithms that search for an extremum of a cost function perform exactly the same, according to any performance measure, when averaged over all possible cost f...
We consider the El Farol bar problem, also known as the minority game (W. B.\nArthur, ``The American Economic Review'', 84(2): 406--411 (1994), D. Challet\nand Y.C. Zhang, ``Phy...
A framework is developed to explore the connection between effective optimization algorithms and the problems they are solving. A number of “no free lunch ” (NFL) theorems are p...
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