scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2117227

Dirk P. Kroese, Reuven Y. Rubinstein

Publication date: 22 November 2004

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importance sampling combinatorial optimization machine learning noisy optimization Kullback-Leibler distance rare-event simulation cross-entropy method

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