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A number of "no free lunch" (NFL) theorems are presented which establish that for any algorithm, any elevated performance over one class of problems is offset by performance over another class.

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A number of "no free lunch" (NFL) theorems are presented which establish that for any algorithm, any elevated performan…○ uncheckedyes0.55013.8—

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