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It's cool to see this kind of stuff. I used simulated annealing for my thesis on cellular network optimization back in college. Haven't used any algorithms li
by makosdv 12y ago
It's cool to see this kind of stuff. I used simulated annealing for my thesis on cellular network optimization back in college. Haven't used any algorithms like this since then, but they have their uses.
- tjl 12y agoI used simulated annealing for my Master's thesis. I was trying to fit a differential equation to some experimental results. With small changes in the parameters, you could get huge changes in the solution of the DE. For some of the experiments, the parameters it chose fit almost perfectly. As a result, simulated annealing is one of the techniques I look at for highly non-linear optimization.
- Fede_V 12y agoSimulated annealing is not required for non-linear optimization. It's useful for non-convex optimization. Non-linear but convex problems are trivial to solve with Newton's method - a simple example is finding the weights of an SVM.
- tjl 12y agoTrue. But, in my case, I didn't know if it was convex. A small change of parameters could go from a feasible solution to an infeasible solution.