Talk:Harmony search

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Yes, really. The link ("Harmony Search Algorithm" doesn't really give any more explanations (except maybe in Korean), it seems to promise a lot, but it's on an analogy-level and stops ther (harmony, tuning, pitching, ensemble...; analogies are nice, but in the end analogies are all they are). In the Excel-link on the mentioned page, I see a few (mainly uncommented) lines of VBA-code that tries the Rosenbrock test, with sometimes (randomly) unimpressing results.

There must be more to it?--80.202.212.89 14:11, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

I agree, I looked at a few papers and they have a lot of self-similarity and self-citation. The convergence on the rosenbrock test is also underwhelming (it took 100000 iterations to get within 1e-5 of the optimum - I think Nelder-Mead method is a few orders of magnitude faster than this (the animation on that page has 45 frames). --Jaded-view (talk) 21:43, 28 April 2008 (UTC)