Lean evolutionary machine learning by multitasking simpler and hard tasks

• Main Author: Zhang, Nick Shihui
• Other Authors: Ong Yew Soon
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/164300
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Many decisions in a machine learning (ML) pipeline involve non-differentiable and discontinuous objectives and search spaces. Examples include feature selection, model selection, and reinforcement learning where candidate solutions must be evaluated via a learning subsystem or through interactions w...