Stochastic Annealing
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We demonstrate that is it possible to simulate a system in thermal equilibrium even when the energy cannot be evaluated exactly, provided the error distribution is known. This leads to an effective optimisation strategy for problems where the evaluation of each design can only be sampled statistically.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0301179,
title = {Stochastic Annealing},
author = {Robin C. Ball and Thomas M. A. Fink and Neill E. Bowler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0301179},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, submitting to PRL