Are the optimized values the "Mean" column on the "Max" tab?  How does
one get them out?  Copy to clipboard only works for a single cell at a
time.  I'm on Windows.


On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Rémi Coulom <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a draft of the paper I will submit to ACG13.
>
> Title: CLOP: Confident Local Optimization for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Tuning
>
> Abstract: Artificial intelligence in games often leads to the problem of 
> parameter tuning. Some heuristics may have coefficients, and they should be 
> tuned to maximize the win rate of the program. A possible approach consists 
> in building local quadratic models of the win rate as a function of program 
> parameters. Many local regression algorithms have already been proposed for 
> this task, but they are usually not robust enough to deal automatically and 
> efficiently with very noisy outputs and non-negative Hessians. The CLOP 
> principle, which stands
> for Confident Local OPtimization, is a new approach to local regression that 
> overcomes all these problems in a simple and efficient way. It consists in 
> discarding samples whose estimated value is confidently inferior to the mean 
> of all samples. Experiments demonstrate that, when the function to be 
> optimized is smooth, this method outperforms all other tested algorithms.
>
> pdf and source code:
> http://remi.coulom.free.fr/CLOP/
>
> Comments, questions, and suggestions for improvement are welcome.
>
> Rémi
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