No free lunch theorems for optimization
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No free lunch theorems for optimization
A framework is developed to explore the connection between e ective optimization algorithms and the problems they are solving A number of no free lunch NFL theorems are presented that establish that for any algorithm any elevated performance over one class of problems is exactly paid for in performance over another class These theorems result in a geometric interpretation of what it means for a...
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عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1089-778X
DOI: 10.1109/4235.585893