Remarks on a recent paper on the "no free lunch" theorems

نویسندگان

  • Mario Köppen
  • David Wolpert
  • William G. Macready
چکیده

This letter discusses the recent paper Some technical remarks on the proof of the No Free Lunch the orem In that paper some technical issues related to the formal proof of the No Free Lunch NFL theorem for search were given As a result of a discussion among the authors this letter explores the issues raised in that paper more thoroughly This includes the presentation of a simpler version of the NFL proof in accord with a sug gestion made explicitly in and implicitly in It also includes the correction of an incorrect claim made in of a limitation of the NFL theorem Finally some thoughts on future research directions for research into algorithm per formance are given

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation

دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2001