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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}
}
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