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Everitt, Tom; Lattimore, Tor; Hutter, Marcus

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Function optimisation is a major challenge in computer science. The No Free Lunch theorems state that if all functions with the same histogram are assumed to be equally probable then no algorithm outperforms any other in expectation. We argue against the

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Date published: 2014
Type: Conference paper
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/58292
Source: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2014
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2014.6900546

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