In simulated annealing, the temperature value starts out large, such as 1000000.0 and then is reduced slowly on each iteration. Early in the algorithm, when temperature is large, accept_p will be ...

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.

In computer science, normally we care about asymptotic speedup: We care about, “What is your running time as a function of the size of the problem? Does it grow linearly? Does it grow quadratically?” ...

Quantum technologies have long been pitched as a way to fundamentally change the way drugs are discovered; to start putting the theory to the test, researchers from pharmaceutical company ...

D-Wave Systems Inc. is the only company in the world to build both quantum gates and quantum annealing computers. In an interview, Murray Thom, vice president, product management, D-Wave, explains why ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains a new idea that slightly modifies standard simulated annealing by borrowing ideas from quantum mechanics. The goal of a combinatorial optimization ...