The No Free Lunch Theorem Disproved by Counterexample: A Justification for Regrouing
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After deriving the particle swarm equations from basic physics, this paper shows by contradiction that NFL Theorem 1, and consequently Theorems 2 and 3, are irrelevant to continuous optimization. As the discrete nature of matter at its most fundamental level is generally irrelevant from the broader classical perspective, so to is the discrete nature of an optimization problem at its most fundamental level generally irrelevant from the broader continuous perspective.
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