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The "Academic Phrasebank" (http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/) is an online resource to find inspiration and help when writing academic essays. It provides many examples of phrases regarding...
22 November 2016 9,557 10 View
I'm looking for methods for optimizing stochastic functions. By stochastic functions I mean functions whose output is a random variable, such that every time an evaluation is made F(x), with the...
29 January 2015 6,688 4 View
The "no free lunch" theorem, in a very broad sense, states that when averaged over all possible problems, no algorithm will perform better than all others. For optimization, there appears to be...
10 June 2014 5,593 12 View
I have a standard ACO implementation for the TSP problem, with local hill climbing using a full 2-opt (exchanging edges until no further improve can be achieved). The algorithm does fairly well to...
09 June 2014 9,940 4 View
I'm looking to work on this topic and haven't been able to find a state of the art survey. Is it still an active research area?
31 March 2014 4,464 0 View
In math and computer science we have a fairly strict meaning of proof. Something is proven if you can build a chain of inferences that start at some given set of axioms and get to the theorem you...
17 February 2014 1,943 2 View
In Monte-Carlo based rendering algorithms, the final image is composed of the average value of all samples taken through each pixel. In the "classic" formulation for most algorithms (Path Tracing,...
27 January 2014 3,406 5 View
In evolution strategies the normal (gaussian) distribution is generally regarded as the best choice for mutation. I've often seen authors cite the original work by Schwefel and others, and...
13 January 2014 1,555 10 View
I've been doing research in computer graphics for a while, mostly in C# using some DirectX wrapper (SlimDX, SharpDX). I've thinking to switch into C++ and OpenGL for a while, because I think...
19 October 2013 3,416 10 View
I'm currently working on a view space representation to accelerate an approximate ray-tracing technique on GPU. I would like to hear of similar attempts to compare some ideas. I'm using an...
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