Hi Thomas

As far as I recall, the parameter ranges were used for the random  
restarts. These are sampled uniformly from the given range.

cheers - Barry

Quoting Thomas Schoenemann <[email protected]> on Mon, 23  
Jan 2012 09:42:38 +0000 (GMT):

> Hi everyone,
>
>  can anyone tell me if the current MERT implementation should  
> respect parameter ranges? It does require to input them, but to my  
> knowledge these ranges are ignored.
>
>
> Except for the word penalty I think all weights should be positive.  
> Yet, I often get negative ones from MERT, and they are not always  
> corrected in later iterations.
>
> Cheers,
>   Thomas (currently University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
>



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