Comment by 0xdeadbeefbabe
3 days ago
The part about pruning and selecting sounds similar to genetic algorithms from before the popularity of nn.
3 days ago
The part about pruning and selecting sounds similar to genetic algorithms from before the popularity of nn.
That's right! The second paragraph on OPTIMIZATION WITH SPLIT-AND-PRUNE in the original paper:
> Inspired by the theory of *evolution and genetic algorithms*, we propose the Split-and-Prune algorithm to address the above issues, as outlined in algorithm 1.