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Outperform on what? Can you give specific examples? There are a large number of Combinatorial Optimisation Problems. It is a very sweeping statement to say 'gra
by ppj606 12y ago
Outperform on what? Can you give specific examples? There are a large number of Combinatorial Optimisation Problems. It is a very sweeping statement to say 'gradient descent techniques far outperform evolutionary ones'.
- j2kun 12y agoHe said something along the lines of "I have yet to see an application where evolutionary techniques outperform gradient descent approaches." His talk was about parameter optimization for costly experiments (e.g., manufacturing and testing a vehicle), so his emphasis was on optimization that minimizes the number of function applications. But he seemed to be an expert with a lot of experience.