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> Simulated Annealing is LITERALLY a random walk (biased towards higher values, but its strongly random nonetheless). I don't think that's a fair characterisat
by randomsearch 9y ago
> Simulated Annealing is LITERALLY a random walk (biased towards higher values, but its strongly random nonetheless).
I don't think that's a fair characterisation, and it could be misleading for people new to SA. I'd say SA is a hill-climbing algorithm that has a probability of accepting an inferior move, a probability which shrinks asymptotically over time.