Machine Learning - Stochastic Optimization

IDEA:

Utilise the PBIL algorithm (essentially a basic genetic algorithm in this case) to stochasticlly optimise the concentrator - terminal problem.

Background Reading

• Differences between Epoch, Batch and Mini-Batch: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/117919/what-are-the-differences-between-epoch-batch-and-minibatch
• Population Based Incremental Learning heuristics, algorithmic definition and further resources: http://www.cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/probabilistic/pbil.html
• Original paper introducing PBIL: https://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub1/baluja_shumeet_1994_2/baluja_shumeet_1994_2.pdf