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what about global optimization methods, e.g. simulated annealing?
by plg 11y ago
what about global optimization methods, e.g. simulated annealing?
- jcoffland 11y agoI too was disapointed SA wasn't even mentioned. I've gotten good results with it in the past. It's ability to get out of local minima make it quite powerful. Still, it's an excellent article.
- fogleman 11y agoSimulated Annealing is my go-to optimization algorithm. I'm using at work to solve a vehicle scheduling problem.
- msellout 11y agoI believe it was, despite not calling the name out explicitly. Are you suggesting that simulated annealing does not belong in the categories of "repetition strategy," "alteration strategy", nor "ensemble strategy"? Simulated annealing is essentially hill-climbing with random restarts with the tweak of a changing climb-distance. Depending on how you feel like categorizing that, it's either repetition, alteration, or both (and therefore ensemble).