Top "Mathematical-optimization" questions

Mathematical optimization deals with maximizing or minimizing an objective function by choosing values from within an allowed feasible set of possible values.

What is an NP-complete in computer science?

What is an NP-complete problem? Why is it such an important topic in computer science?

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How to interpret "loss" and "accuracy" for a machine learning model

When I trained my neural network with Theano or Tensorflow, they will report a variable called "loss" per epoch. How …

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Any efficient way to calculate the sum of harmonic series upto nth term? 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + --- + 1/n =?

Is there any formula for this series "1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + --- + 1/n = ?" I think it is a harmonic number in a form of …

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How to concatenate two integers in C

Stack Overflow has this question answered in many other languages, but not C. So I thought I'd ask, since I …

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Python constrained non-linear optimization

What's the recommended package for constrained non-linear optimization in python ? The specific problem I'm trying to solve is this: I …

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OpenCV, C++: Distance between two points

For a group project, we are attempting to make a game, where functions are executed whenever a player forms a …

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Best open source Mixed Integer Optimization Solver

I am using CPLEX for solving huge optimization models (more than 100k variables) now I'd like to see if I …

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Why should weights of Neural Networks be initialized to random numbers?

I am trying to build a neural network from scratch. Across all AI literature there is a consensus that weights …

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Which is better way to calculate nCr

Approach 1: C(n,r) = n!/(n-r)!r! Approach 2: In the book Combinatorial Algorithms by wilf, i have found this: C(…

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What is an intuitive explanation of the Expectation Maximization technique?

Expectation Maximization (EM) is a kind of probabilistic method to classify data. Please correct me if I am wrong if …

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