Continuous Lunches Are Not Free
Functional Analysis
2015-07-03 v1 Optimization and Control
Abstract
Stemming from a paper of Auger and Teytaud, there is a common misconception that for continuous domains No Free Lunch (NFL) does not hold. However, Rowe, Vose, and Wright have demonstrated that NFL holds for arbitrary domains and co-domains. This paper resolves the apparent contradiction.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1507.00581,
title = {Continuous Lunches Are Not Free},
author = {Michael D. Vose},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.00581},
year = {2015}
}