'Local optima' presentation slideshows

2007 NIPS Tutorial on: Deep Belief Nets

2007 NIPS Tutorial on: Deep Belief Nets. Geoffrey Hinton Canadian Institute for Advanced Research & Department of Computer Science University of Toronto. Some things you will learn in this tutorial.

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Optimization methods

Optimization methods. Aleksey Minin Saint-Petersburg State University Student of ACOPhys master program (10 th semester). A pplied and CO mputational Phys ics. What is optimization?. Content:. Applications of optimization Global Optimization Local Optimization Discrete optimization

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/. CIS786 Lecture 1. Usman Roshan. Complexity. NP: class of decision problems whose solution can be verified in polynomial time P: class of decision problems whose solution can be determined in polynomial time TSP (decision version)

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Computational and mathematical challenges involved in very large-scale phylogenetics

Computational and mathematical challenges involved in very large-scale phylogenetics. Tandy Warnow The University of Texas at Austin. How did life evolve on earth?. An international effort to understand how life evolved on earth

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Introduction to Optimization

Introduction to Optimization. Outline. Conventional design methodology What is optimization? Unconstrained minimization Constrained minimization Global-Local Approaches Multi-Objective Optimization Optimization software Structural optimization Surrogate optimization ( Metamodeling )

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CSP: Examples

CSP: Examples. Industrial applications: scheduling, resource allocation, product configuration, etc. AI: Logic inference, temporal reasoning, NLP, etc. Puzzles: Sudoku & Minesweeper. 2,4,6,9. 3,5,7. <. <. <. <. <. 3,5,7. 5,6,7,8. 1,6,11. =. =. ?. <. <. 1,2,10. 8,9,11.

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Optimization of Multibody Systems

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Different Local Search Algorithms in STAGE for Solving Bin Packing Problem

Different Local Search Algorithms in STAGE for Solving Bin Packing Problem. Gholamreza Haffari Sharif University of Technology haffari@ce.sharif.edu. Overview. Combinatorial Optimization Problems and State Spaces STAGE Algorithm Local Search Algorithms Results Conclusion and Future works.

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New Approaches for Feature Extraction in Hyperspectral Imagery

New Approaches for Feature Extraction in Hyperspectral Imagery. Stefan A. Robila Lukasz Maciak Department of Computer Science www.csam.montclair.edu/~robila. IEEE LISAT, 2006. Hyperspectral Images.

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Automated Fugue Generation

Automated Fugue Generation. Yu Yue Yue Yang s upervised by Prof Andrew Horner. What is a Fugue ?. A fugue is a musical composition of multiple voices built on a subject (recurring theme) that imitates itself frequently throughout the piece.

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Application of Nature Inspired Genetic Algorithms For Job Shop Scheduling

School of Computer Science University of Birmingham. Application of Nature Inspired Genetic Algorithms For Job Shop Scheduling. Bhuvan Sharma Research Associate Advanced Computation in Design and Decision Making Group University West of England, Bristol, UK bhuvan.sharma@uwe.ac.uk.

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Heuristic Optimization Methods

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Stochastic Optimization and Simulated Annealing

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Automatic generation of optimized working time models in personnel planning

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A complex systems methodology to transition management

A complex systems methodology to transition management. DIMETIC, Maastricht, 15-19 Oct 2007 Koen Frenken (k.frenken@geo.uu.nl). Structure of the talk. Some remarks on NK-models The power of decomposition and the example of the Wright Brothers inventing the airplane

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Optimality Conditions for Unconstrained optimization

Optimality Conditions for Unconstrained optimization. One dimensional optimization Necessary and sufficient conditions Multidimensional optimization Classification of stationary points Necssary and sufficient conditions for local optima. Convexity and global optimality.

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Global Optimization

Global Optimization. General issues in global optimization Classification of algorithms The DIRECT algorithm Relationship to EGO Lipschitzian optimization Exploration and Exploitation Application to High Speed Civil Transport. Global optimization issues. Optimization problem is NP-hard

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Predicting consumer sentiments from online text

Predicting consumer sentiments from online text. Presenter: Jun-Yi Wu Authors: Xue Bai. ???????? National Yunlin University of Science and Technology. 2011 DSS. Outline. Motivation Objective Methodology Experiments Conclusion Comments. Motivation.

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Graphical optimization

Graphical optimization. Some problems are cheap to simulate or test. Even if they are not, we may fit a surrogate that is cheap to evaluate. Relying on optimization software to find the optimum is foolhardy. It is better to thoroughly explore manually.

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