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GECCO'01: Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary ComputationThe No Free Lunch theorem is reviewed and cast within a simple framework for black-box search. A duality result which relates functions being optimized to algorithms optimizing them is obtained and is used to sharpen the No Free Lunch theorem. ...
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GECCO'99: Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1It is often claimed that Evolutionary Algorithms are superior to other optimization techniques, in particular, in situations where not much is known about the objective function to be optimized. In contrast to that Wolpert and Macready (1997) proved ...
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