NFL theorem

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:mathematical_concept
gptkbp:alternativeName No Free Lunch theorem for optimization
No Free Lunch theorem for search
gptkbp:appliesTo supervised learning
search problems
black-box optimization
gptkbp:author gptkb:William_G._Macready
gptkb:David_H._Wolpert
gptkbp:citation gptkb:IEEE_Transactions_on_Evolutionary_Computation
gptkbp:field gptkb:machine_learning
optimization
search algorithms
gptkbp:fullName No Free Lunch theorem
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label NFL theorem
gptkbp:impact influences understanding of algorithm performance limits
gptkbp:publicationYear 1997
gptkbp:relatedTo bias-variance tradeoff
inductive bias
algorithm selection
gptkbp:sentence No optimization algorithm is universally better than any other when performance is averaged across all possible problems.
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:No_Free_Lunch_Theorem
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7