FastKDE?
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I've heard that recent works have done some improvements over traditional KDE (kernel density estimation).
And this project fastKDE contains an implementation.
Any thoughts on that?
Well, assuming that you are using binning followed by KDE, this process doesn't seem to be anywhere near a bottleneck in Robocode. Or is it? I mean, binning reduces the number of kernel evaluations from quadratic order to linear order if you precompute the results for each possible delta. You still get a quadratic number of additions and multiplications, but it shouldn't be that expensive and even if it is, the biggest improvement I can imagine is using FFT here, which would not have a big impact for the number of bins we usually use in Robocode (I've never seen more than 120). And I don't see any advantage on not using binning if you have more than number_of_bins samples, since the GuessFactor [-1, +1] range is pretty "small".
Anyway, seems to be a really nice article to read :P Maybe those optimizations can work well on swarm targeting?
