Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Aug., 2000), pp. 476-484 (9 pages) Simulated Annealing has proven to be a very successful heuristic for various combinatorial optimization problems.

1- Is it possible to avoid local minima by combining a crude form of simulated annealing with backprop?<BR><BR>specifically, make the activation or weights stochastic, and gradually reduce the ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/2583858 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/2583858 Copy URL The objective of this study is to use the simulated annealing method to solve ...

If you want to simulate a tic-tac-toe game, that’s easy. You can evaluate every possible move in a reasonable amount of time. Simulating antennas, however, is much harder. [Rosrislav] has been ...

The art and science of quantum annealing to arrive at a best of all worlds answer to difficult questions has been well understood for years (even if implementing it as a computational device took time ...

Experiments ( by researchers at USC, ETH Zurich, and the Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology, Microsoft Research) have demonstrated that quantum annealing with more than one hundred ...

TOKYO, Sept 1, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced the launch of the "NEC Vector Annealing Service," a quantum-inspired simulated annealing service that uses a vector ...