The cross-entropy method for solving a variety of hierarchical search problems.

Cécile Simonin Jean-Pierre Le Cadre Frédéric Dambreville

Published in: FUSION (2007)

Keyphrases

cross entropy
search problems
similarity measure
log likelihood
computational complexity
cost function
combinatorial optimization
language modeling
search space
dynamic programming
mutual information
em algorithm
orders of magnitude
closed form
search algorithm
scoring function
objective function
feature selection